http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2475398/CESC-FABREGAS-Why-Arsenal-way.html
Maybe some don't like hearing what he has to say but given his history and association with us I'm interested in reading his views on where we are as opposed to where we were when he left.
‘Ozil is the man who makes the difference in the final third,’
‘He will find so much space in th Premier League and he’s a player who with space kills you. His final pass is brilliant. And he will score more goals in England than he did in Spain. He is a spectacular signing.’‘Ozil will bring the best out in Ramsey and Wilshere. They understand football the same way,’
‘It’s difficult. So many things happened. I don’t remember the year but I think it was 2008 when we were going very well and then came the injury to Eduardo and that impacted on everyone and from there we started to drop.
‘In the end, it was a mental thing — when you lose the final of the Carling Cup against Birmingham who then were relegated... you can imagine how that feels. The manager gave a lot of freedom to the young players and that is why they are so good today, because he did not overload them with pressure but when things like that happen with the age of the side it’s tough.
‘When everyone is so young it is difficult for someone to stand up and say, “Come on!”
We often had meetings to solve the problem and they helped and we made sense of things but that experience was missing. Now they have found a very good balance. They have people there who have a lot of experience like Per Mertesacker and Mikel Arteta and Lukas Podolski.
‘What the team has now is the strength of character that was maybe lacking in the past and was only ever going to come with age.