Posted by Andre The Giant (somewhere in the mountains)
Today, Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas made the following statement:
“Firstly I would like to apologise to all the Arsenal fans for not speaking sooner about my future but I have not known what I was going to do until this moment.
I cannot deny that joining a club like Barcelona was not an attractive move for me. This was the club where I learnt my football, it is my home town where my friends and family are and a club where I have always dreamed of playing. There are not many players in this world who would not want to play for Barcelona.
I have had many conversations with Arsène Wenger both in person and over the phone over the last few months and although the content of those conversations will remain private, the conclusion is that Barcelona have had two formal offers rejected by Arsenal.
I am a professional and I fully understand that it is Arsenal’s prerogative not to sell me.
I owe a lot to the Club, manager and the fans and I will respect their decision and will now concentrate on the new season ahead with Arsenal.
I can assure all the fans that now the negotiations have ended I will be 100 percent focused on playing for Arsenal.
I am an Arsenal player and as soon as I step out on to the pitch, that is the only club I will be thinking about.
I am looking forward to the start of the season and putting this speculation behind me.”
There are four insurmountable facts to the situation.
1/ Cesc wanted to go to Barcelona
2/ Arsenal did not want Cesc to go to Barcelona
3/ Barcelona wanted to buy Cesc but were not prepared to pay market value for him and therefore used every offensive, classless trick in the book to attempt to undermine Arsenal
4/ Arsenal stood their ground and Cesc Fabregas remains the Arsenal captain for the 2010/11 season.
I am not sure I recall reading a statement of such honesty and professionalism from a footballer. Think of the way Adecashmore behaved, then think of the polar opposite and you have Cesc’s statement.
If you follow us on Twitter then you may have picked up on the odds that we were following throughout Cescgate. At one point, he was 3.5 to stay at Arsenal on Betfair. This seemed incredibly generous given the length of his contract, our desire to keep him and the fact that Barcelona are as far into the red as Portsmouth. Hopefully a few people took those odds.
So it’s time to stick two fingers up to the Barcelona contingent who have embarrassed themselves like a granny at a wedding, standing on the table and lifting their skirt to reveal they had forgotten to wear underwear that day. Iniesta, Puyol, Reina (not Barca I know but still), Xavi, Messi and all you other muppets, go fuck yourself with a really big fucking stick you slimy bunch of cunts. We have won the battle and, who knows, when we win the treble perhaps we’ll even win the war.