From Tim Odero : The Fabregas Conundrum
Hi Myles,
Hope you are enjoying the World Cup as much as I am.
The Ghana-Germany match was one of those few exciting matches that could have gone either way.
After reading about Del Bosque and Fabregas, I was looking for more details on what exactly happened and came across this article.
It’s very intriguing and gives an insight on Wenger’s influence on young players. It’s rather long, but it captures alot about where Fabregas is now. But it was written just weeks before he finally signed for Chelsea.
http://whitehouseaddress.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-problem-with-cesc-fabregas.html
Myles says:
Perceptive piece!
For me, tika-taka is only fantastic if you have Xavi-Iniesta-Messi all at their peak.
Cesc was overplayed by Wenger, who always gave the armband to a star who wanted to leave and win trophies, so they would stay another season.
But Fabregas is a steely character who stood up to Wenger’s emotional backmail by challenging him.
When the manager said,” You can’t go,now, I’m building my team around you”, Cesc asked him for names.
I think that’s why Wenger refused to takle him back
Fabregas will be a huge success at Chelsea, I think.
He needs to find himself again and this is the greatest challenge of his adult life.
I think Fabregas will give Diego Costa the early service he used to give Adebayor.
This guy started out as a kid in suburban digs with Senderos, had a lot of laughs with Flamini & Hleb in that Spanish restaurant in Enfield after training, and comes back to the world’s greatest city as a 27-year-old multi-millionaire World Cup winner to live in W1 with the other wealthy grown-ups.
OK, South Africa 2010 seems like eons ago now.
But all though that tournament, as I re-discovered when editing My Four World Cups, I kept believing in him.
Whe he wasn’t in the team, I kept writing: I still think he will have a major role to play in this World Cup.That was just a feeling, an instinct. In the Final, Fabregas came on and supplied the pass that won Spain’s first World Cup.