😆 can't there be a no option without it coming across as a personal vendetta?

Cesc wrote:

I came here to see out my career.

Until that changes to "I want to leave and return to Arsenal," it's a no from me.

Absolutely not. Epitomises the whole loser era (even Barcelona couldn't win anything with him in the squad interestingly). This is a guy who went on strike to engineer a move away from us. After a good spell of performances, how long would it take until he looks for the move again? I'm glad he's not enjoying his time there. Hope it continues for the rest of career. Cunt.

i was thinking of a sneaky loan move for him last week actually. don't think so though, don't know where he'd fit in, and a clean break is always better than lingering on. unless you're a mad cunt like tezza henry.

invisibleman18 wrote:

Absolutely not. Epitomises the whole loser era (even Barcelona couldn't win anything with him in the squad interestingly). This is a guy who went on strike to engineer a move away from us. After a good spell of performances, how long would it take until he looks for the move again? I'm glad he's not enjoying his time there. Hope it continues for the rest of career. Cunt.

He has won a world cup and two Euro competitions. He also won the Copa Del Rey with Barcelona.
At club level our losing era has absolutely nothing to do with him, we should be grateful he stuck around as long as he did to play with the dross that Wenger drubbed up year after year. The circumstances around his departure were clearly not motivated by money and he didn't want to go anywhere else within the premier league.
The guy is one of the best midfielders we have ever had and i would take him back in a heartbeat.

I would take him back in a heartbeat and everyone who wouldn't is out of their mind.

He joined Barca for multiple reasons. One of them was Pep.

there is always the chance that he hates the new manager. But he'd still be around mates he grew up with- too much bromance tween him and Pique.

If he really wanted to rejoin though, I'd take him.

I'd take him back for sure - but he would have to actually want to come back and to have given up on his Barca dream.

Wait until Xavi, Messi or Iniesta departs or declines - if Cesc is left on the bench in favour of some other star or acquisition then, we'll see a real mood swing. He's just whining at the moment.

Xtraordinary wrote:

At club level our losing era has absolutely nothing to do with him, we should be grateful he stuck around as long as he did to play with the dross that Wenger drubbed up year after year.

Is that what our club is reduced to now? Feeling grateful or lucky that players stayed with us while under contract? The guy went on strike to force a move away. For years he kept quiet while his mates told the world he had the "wrong DNA" to play for Arsenal and that he was "only on loan." He let them "force" Barcelona shirts over his head while he was still under contract with us. He prevented us from selling him on the open market, vastly reducing the fee we would have got for him if the likes of Real Madrid or Manchester City were able to bid. He is synonomous with the whole dire which we are now attempting to move away from with a virtually completely different side. He was the main man and captain who the side was built around. Of course the losing era has everything to do with him. He's no better than the likes of Cashley, and in some ways even worse. Do not want anywhere near my club.

After the way he conducted himself during his last summer here i don't think there is a way back for him regardless of his talents. Wenger is a manager who doesn't forgive and Arsenal have Cazorla in his position so he won't fork out 30 million to resign him when there are other priorities in the team.

If Fabregas leaves Barcelona it would be to one of the Manchester clubs or Chelsea. Wouldn't say Real Madrid were out of the question either.

I agree YounGunner, but at least hypothetically, should we care what Wenger thinks about it? We're not beholden to our manager's personal views nor is he free from blame for the end of Cesc's career here.

If Cesc became available, wanted to return and could be had for market value (or better yet, less, given our buyback clause and the assumption he wanted to return), he's still a top, top player.

Meh, you'd get over it if he plays well. Man City welcomed Tevez back.

Of course if he comes back he needs to renounce any ambitions to play for Barcelona and sign a five year contract too.

Burnwinter wrote:

I agree YounGunner, but at least hypothetically, should we care what Wenger thinks about it? We're not beholden to our manager's personal views nor is he free from blame for the end of Cesc's career here.

If Cesc became available, wanted to return and could be had for market value (or better yet, less, given our buyback clause and the assumption he wanted to return), he's still a top, top player.

Just being realistic mate. He would be a luxury signing at this point and those are the type of signings Wenger never makes.

I doubt he would even want to come back here unless we win a major trophy this season.

If it was up to me i would sign him tomorrow but then again i would also sign Messi and Falcao.

Yes, realistically, he doesn't even want to come back and would cost a mint, so wouldn't be re-signed.

squallkid wrote:

That no option was for Biggus

And I appreciate it Kid, although I wouldn't have put it as mildly.

We should never take players back a 2nd time, even Henry who was a slightly surprising (and pleasing) distraction, but was no way to built a team.

General Mirth wrote:

Meh, you'd get over it if he plays well. Man City welcomed Tevez back.

Of course if he comes back he needs to renounce any ambitions to play for Barcelona and sign a five year contract too.

Contracts are worth nothing and peoples promises even less.

We should never take players back a 2nd time make arbitrary rules which make it harder to assemble a trophy-winning squad

Fixed.

Corny prodigal son biblical soap opera slant aside - being in a position to buy Cesc back would probably mean that things would have gone terribly wrong for Barca and we'd have won a title.
Sounds fine to me 🙂