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Cesc Fabregas: We understand fans suffered, we will make sure this changes

Written by Renzo on May 21, 2011 – 17:30

Arsenal Interactive - Squad SelectorCesc Fabregas

Captain Cesc Fabregas was full of praise for the Arsenal fans as he revealed he understands the pain as another season with no trophies will end on Sunday.

Speaking to the Official Matchday Programme, the midfielder explained that many are those who travel all over Europe to follow the team they love even if they have families, jobs and other commitments in life, something that is wonderful to see.

Even if criticised by some, the 23-year old was especially full of praise for the home support as he declared that they were amazing when the Gunners played against Chelsea, Barcelona and Everton at the Emirates this season.

Ahead of next season, the Catalan concluded by saying that he understands that the fans are suffering because of the lack of silverware, adding that the players will make sure that this will change, next season.

On the Arsenal fans, Fabregas said:

I want to thank the fans, whether they follow us at home, away or both.

Away from home, we often feel as if we are playing in our own stadium; so many people travel all over Europe with us despite having families, jobs and other commitments, and their dedication is remarkable. What they do is wonderful and we appreciate it a lot.

Our home fans have constantly amazed me too – I think of the sensational atmosphere they created against Chelsea, and then against Barcelona.

The match against Everton also stays in my mind – we were 1-0 down but they pushed us so hard to help us turn it into a win.

We understand how much the fans have suffered through our not winning trophies for a few years, but we will make sure this changes.

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  • dave highbury says:
    May 22, 2011 at 1:13

    I remember those three games for HOME CROWD. Those were the games when we sounded like the champions and Arsenal played like them. This is the reason Fabs mentioned these games. I remember Everton’s off-side goal being shown on the screen – then we got behind the team… and there was a definite change in their play, our support, and with the 2 – 1 come back. The home crowd was the difference – we all felt it. Those three games showed we make a BIG difference when we back our team at home.
    I would be great if it’s the fans that earn the title next season.
    I never slag the team off at the stadium – NEVER

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  • David sutasurya says:
    May 22, 2011 at 7:15

    Yes, Fans should be part of the solution, not part of the problem. Consistent support even when the team have problem will make the differences. The players need true fans, and true fans are true friends.

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    • Arsenalisto says:
      May 22, 2011 at 18:06

      This is all reflected by our unusually better away record than home record, I mean the fans start supporting before games start not players start playing before supporters start supporting, you can’t just expect the team to click into gear every game in first 20 mins when the stadium seems like a library lol. It also explains why refs and pundits like to rip into us like dogs on a dead animal and refs have cost us at least 13 points and of course gave united many points. I understand Fifa have put aside about 30 million euros for investigations on a mutli-billion match fixing industry that’s running behind the scenes across Europe (basically all the gambling money). A lot of people underestimate the psychology behind not supporting the team and the temptation it gives others from outside club to berate the team. Do you think the world trade centers were destroyed for nothing? They were destroyed to get the people to support the wars, and I don’t know what can Wenger similarly do to get the fans behind the team (well maybe replay all the unjust refs calls before every game and in every break in every game similarly to what happened vs Everton when fans got into victim mode, they start fighting back and supporting their team). In-short, some fans are a disgrace.

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  • The Shining says:
    May 21, 2011 at 18:00

    Does that mean he’s staying?

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    • Chris says:
      May 21, 2011 at 18:09

      No.

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      • primipare says:
        May 21, 2011 at 21:53

        But it doesn’t mean he isn’t. He didn’t have to phrase it like that – I bet Cesc understands the subtleties of the English language. He could have said “The team will…”, “Arsenal will….” “The club will…”.

        I didn’t believe Cesc would leave this Summer before reading this, I still don’t believe he will.

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        • Chris says:
          May 21, 2011 at 21:59

          He’s the team captain, he has all the right to speak on behalf of the rest.

          AC Milan, Inter Milan, Real Madrid and Barcelona will all make offers for him, we can say he will stay the moment we see an official announcement on the official website.

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          • primipare says:
            May 21, 2011 at 22:25

            I agree, there will be offers, but that misses my point, I believe. Yes he can speak on behalf of the team still, the wording is interesting – it’s not everything but interesting.
            I also think Cesc has a winning mentality (I don’t buy the “he didn’t care this season” going around in various versions) and leaving Arsenal now, when the vast majority of football fans, probably including himself, feel the team is close to breaking through, would not be consistent, I believe with that winning mentality. I think we should be worried of him leaving 1) if the team actually drops this potential it still holds or 2) if we win something big. If we win something big he’ll be able to leave saying “I took this team through all the adversities to this great trophy. I can now leave and rejoin Barcelona” (or any other big club, possibly).

            If he leaves now, his years at Arsenal will feel a little bit wasted and that is a hard thing to admit. So he HAS to leave after having won something, I believe.

            But that’s just my 2-pennies worth of football psychology

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            • Chris says:
              May 21, 2011 at 22:28

              I agree.

              Injuries damaged his season, not his attitude.

              And I hope you’re right when you say he will only leave after winning a trophy as I still consider Cesc our best player.

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              • SeattleGooner says:
                May 21, 2011 at 22:58

                Stay or go, I’m fine either way at this point.

                Yes he is our best player, and there is no one that can adequately replace what he brings to the table.

                However, his constant injury concerns are becoming borderline chronic, and having a talent like his or RVP is great, but if they are going to miss so many games, its really reduces his effectiveness.

                He is our captain, and a leader in the clubhouse, but he dreams of Barca, and Arsenal deserve a captain who dream of being at Arsenal, nowhere else. This is not a slight at Fabregas, it is simply a truth. I’m not questioning his desire to win at Arsenal, but I think it sends a poor message that our captain very much wants to leave.

                Also, Fabregas is a rarity among Arsenal players right now because he is a hot commodity, and we could get quite alot for him. By all accounts, his sale could nearly double Arsenal’s transfer pool (assuming it is all spent on transfers, big assumption). Or we could recieve players for him, as well as some money. Arsenal must consider selling high for Fabregas, because one or two more years of this reoccuring hamstring injury and teams could begin to lower their valuation of him.

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                • Phil23 says:
                  May 22, 2011 at 1:14

                  Yes. He is staying. Theres no chance Cesc will go anywhere but Barca and that isn’t happening this year. Although for me the only way Barca might change there offer is if they lose the CL to United.

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                • primipare says:
                  May 22, 2011 at 9:46

                  I partly agree with you but I also think we, as fans, delude ourselves a little when wanting to have players as committed to the club as maybe we are. If you had a great job offer taking you physically away from the Emirates to, say Asia, not being able to go to games week in week out, what would you do? You may have a comfortable life but want something new; and taking the job offer may not make you less of an Arsenal fan.

                  Today, few are the clubs who can enjoy top players coming from their own ranks. Barcelona is one, Arsenal also, although most of those youngsters aren’t British, so it is more natural for them to move once they have grown up and are recognized – which doesn’t mean they’d drop their love for the club.

                  So what I’m trying to say is that I don’t believe we can expect our players to commit their entire lives and careers to the club, that we have to accept that this is a job for them – albeit a job they have a passion for and love doing (contrary to most of us, including me, I suppose). I don’t doubt our players enjoy/love playing for Arsenal and would give up a lot to win trophies with the club.

                  But beyond that, I don’t think we can expect more and want our stars away just because they could contemplate moving out one day. It’s unfair to them and, I think, slightly naive on our side.

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          • Arsenalisto says:
            May 22, 2011 at 17:49

            Hey Chris,

            Yes he’s the team captain, but the only reason Cesc have many times spoke of his interest in his old club whenever he was asked is because he doesn’t want to make false promises like that money-grabbing-whore who said “I’ll be a gunner for life” when he was scoring goals for fun, and Cesc has always been honest even when talking to the media. He’s made up his mind this time, he does have class and felt pity for the fans and doesn’t want to add to their misery. He’s a clever guy who understands these little stuff. Arrrgh Man City 1-0 up :(

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  • Judith Le'Strange says:
    May 21, 2011 at 18:04

    I see Fabregas is stating that we will improve next season, does that mean he is planning to stay at Arsenal or just boosting fans hopes that he will remain? But I share his comments along with thousands of fans up and down the country hope that Wenger does strengthen the team during the transfer market and not just with kids, but players who can go in for a challenge and not pull out, but will Wenger spend money or will it again be players at the end of their careers and their present clubs will sell to whoever comes along. I see we’ve been linked with Chris Samba, Scott Parker and Gary Cahill, but will we actually see these players in an Arsenal shirt, I doubt it very much, Wenger doesn’t like spending money, anyone would think it’s his own personal money, but remember Wenger it’s the fans that pay your wages. We need the Board to start pulling their weight if they want to start winning trophies again, which are long overdue!!!

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  • adi says:
    May 21, 2011 at 18:14

    hey chris, what do you think abt this ricky alvarez guy? they say he might have signed for arsenal de sarandi, but it seems illogical to move from no. 1 in the league to no. 17…..

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    • Chris says:
      May 21, 2011 at 18:31

      I think that Andrey Arshavin could now leave :)

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      • vantheman says:
        May 22, 2011 at 0:11

        Do you think this Alvarez guy is replacing Arshavin? In my opinion he is replacing either Rosicky or Diaby. From the youtube videos it doesn’t seem he has a lot of pace.. What do you think about the following replacements compared to June 2010?
        Denilson – replaced by Frimpong
        Rosicky – replaced by Ramsey
        Diaby – replaced by Alvarez

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        • Arsenalisto says:
          May 22, 2011 at 18:18

          I don’t think Diaby will leave neither will Eboue. Denilson, Rosicky and maybe just maybe Arshavin and Clichy as well.

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  • NCF says:
    May 21, 2011 at 19:08

    yes it does

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  • Adam says:
    May 21, 2011 at 19:37

    Isn’t this an old comment?

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    • Chris says:
      May 21, 2011 at 19:40

      If six days is “old” …

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      • Jon Toral says:
        May 21, 2011 at 22:01

        Hey Chris ,can you put up Denilson’s recent interview?

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        • Chris says:
          May 21, 2011 at 22:19

          As you wish sire :)

          I’ll schedule it for tonight.

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          • Jon Toral says:
            May 21, 2011 at 23:29

            Cheers mate.

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  • nicky says:
    May 21, 2011 at 20:25

    @Arsenalisto
    You are absolutely right. All I hope is that with one or two new signings, it will persuade the Emirates fans to up the support for each and every member of the team, throughout each home game, next season. And not single out a successor to poor old Denilson.

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    • Arsenalisto says:
      May 22, 2011 at 18:11

      Yes m8, that’s all I’m hoping for as well. It really does make a difference, you gotta see how negative the fans are even those watching online, they’ve no drop of confidence at all, we gotta make this change, and stop pointing fingers on our team when they do everything to win the games like Sunderland home and away games, Wigan away, Aston Villa home…etc and many others that refs stole our wins away. Yes we do have some slight internal problems other than refs and injuries but we got to make sure we don’t add to those problems, and don’t internally weaken the club.

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  • eve says:
    May 21, 2011 at 20:28

    yes we’ve suffered so to stop us suffering again next season cesc should stay and lead the arsenal to glory, we wont win anything without him.

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  • Bob the Gunner says:
    May 21, 2011 at 21:01

    One of the reasons that Arsenal fans became so furious is because the players likes to talk. When they win, they talk, when they lose, they talk.
    When the talks clearly does not reflect the attitude on the field, it became lies. What makes it worst? They still keep on talking !!!

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  • Andrew says:
    May 21, 2011 at 21:32

    I can (to an extent) accept no silverware because we can’t always predict the outcome, but I can not accept continued basic defending errors, lack of passion, lack of application, lack of tactics. There are all areas that the club can control.
    We used to be quite good at defending, but slowly we gotten pretty bad. To an extent we could ignore it cos we would always out score the opposition. But we’ve the team has become so lazy that nobody knows how to defend! And believe me when we had vermaelen in the squad we still leaked in goals. Plus we’ve now discovered we have no leaders (remember the Sunderland game when nobody wanted to take the penalty…Rosicky took it and missed), no mental strength, and are considered bottlers/chokers. To blame our recent poor performance on losing Carling Cup is a joke. It was months ago…get over it…you should have won the league. There’s always some excuse…injuries, someone broke a leg, too young, too naive, new stadium. etc.
    I’m certainly not holding my breadth on mega signings or a radical over haul of the squad.Once the dust has settled and Wenger has fed us the usual drips of expectation…building our hopes up, I fully expect him to promote some youth players, and a couple of unknown veterans.

    Of course I sincerely hoped I’m proved wrong, but history suggests otherwise.

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  • Aussie Jack says:
    May 22, 2011 at 0:40

    The `will he, won`t he` season is about to begin.Chris you are obviuosly better informed about these things than most of us, the truth is no one knows what will happen to Fabregas it`s something he will have to sort out with his manager and his conscience. No point in giving my opinion, I simply don`t know. True professionals don`t involve themselves in ` the guessing game` only facts. Let`s wait for the official announcement.

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  • Elsabet says:
    May 22, 2011 at 9:29

    cesc are u sure you stay in arsenal for the next season if it’s possible it’s good news for me and also for arsenal fans and i miss the day that arsenal win great trophy please………………………………………………………….please win the trophy and please arsen involve in this summer transfer window and if possible take the signature of great player like benzema,shenider……………..god bless arsennal

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