Cesc for Captain!

Morning Everyone,

Our beloved Cesc Fabregas as usual made all the right noises yesterday when he claimed that a move to Manchester Arab would be 'suicide' for his career. Following the takeover at Citeh, Cesc was believed to be amongst the top few on their shopping list but the player made it crystal clear (again) that he is not interested in a move. Whilst talking to the Telegraph he said,

'It would be suicidal for my career at 21 years of age to move to City. It would make no sense.'

This little bit of news further proves what a mature, sensible, committed young footballer he really is and there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Cesc Fabregas should be made club captain as soon as possible. Since the Tony Adams & Patrick Vieira days the club has desperately lacked sufficient leadership and when you compare the zeal, dedication & committment of Adams & Vieira to Henry (take nothing away as a player) & Gallas (one can see how disillusioned players are when he's giving those pep-talks before a game) you can clearly see the difference.

As for current captain William Gallas (who really isn't as good as he thinks he is), how many times already have we seen him give away vital goals already just because he's a lazy c***? He should be able to marshall the defence and on mor than one occassion has failed to do so.

I personally don't want him club captain any longer. even since the arrival of Gallas, Kolo toure has also struggled somewhat to perform at the levels he was performing at whilst playing alongside Sol Campbell and I know for a fact that when paired with Djourou, Toure will hit his best again and the problem of giving away those 'I-might-make-an-attempt-at-trying-to-defend-but-I-am-a-lazy-c***-so-why-bother' type goals.

We need someone having the hunger, we need someone to grab the game by the balls, to stand up and be accounted for and the hunger that Cesc has within him is enough to stir the entire squad around him. He's a great influence to all those around him, his astute playing style would clearly transcend into captaincy and that I believe is what we're sorely lacking right now.

Moving along, Danny Fizman was talking to News of The World where he defends the policies of le boss, he says:

'You can understand the mentality of other managers who say they have to buy the finished article because the average 'life' of a manager is so short. But Arsene has not gone down that route. His words were ... ''I want to leave it in better shape than when I came''. Now hopefully we'll have trophies along the way but he doesn't want to buy success this year and next year we have a bad year and the next we haven`t got a pot to piss in. We`ve seen all that too often.'

He added in support of Arsenal being able to compete for big money signings in the market as:
'We are a profitable club, self-sustaining, the cash is there. It's up to the manager. Our repayments on the stadium are under £20m a year and it`s producing an extra £50m a year. Our annual costs are fixed for 25 years. They will not rise. Our income will rise and our gate income will rise. Those payments are fixed. So in not too long it will look like a few pennies.'

The transfer incomings and outgoings were also defended;
'We believe in him but its his head on the block in the end.People talk just because Flamini left. He had one great year - one. Before then, he was just a squad player. And while Alex was a lovely player at holding the ball, there was no end product. We have swapped him for Nasri, who already has two goals.'

Finally about Arsene:
'You either believe in Arsene or you don`t. We do. We believe in the way he manages the club. We have total confidence in him.'

What more could I add to this, every word makes sense and is enough to shut up every cynic out there who just wants signings for the sheer hell of it. They don't realize what a great manager Arsene Wenger is and its only because of him that we're so damn spoilt in the first place. Ever one hits a low once in a while, united went through 3 seasons without a major trophy! Why not stop ranting & start believing?

In other news, Theo Walcott was given a start last night, I didn't watch the game but you can read about his performance here.

We still haven't signed Steven Appiah as of yet, I'm beginning to wonder, after keeping in mind AW's ambition to sign Xabi & Inler to bolster the midfield, does it actually make sense to sign another player in the midfield area who has a penchance for injuries and has not featured very regularly for Fener either? Don't you just think that waiting till January to try and sign some real proven quality (Xabi) would make more sense? Although, if we sign appiah and xabi, I wouldn't mind at all, but if we had to sign him, wouldn't we have done so already? Why the delays?

Finally, there's a great post by Fab4 where he gives a great review of our midfield maestro's, you can read that here.

Right then, I'm off.

Have a great day.

Godspeed!!