Claudius He definitely has not played much, thats for sure. i liked him, but he was definitely not good enough. Just look at our title charge collapse 2 seasons ago.. That was down to Saliba's injury and Holding playing the rest of the season. Our defense was a shambles with him in it.

    Holding probably bought himself an extra season for his performance in the FA Cup final

    ESR with his second goal of the season following an assist last week.

    Not sure but I have feeling we should have kept him this season - would have been the perfect Ode replacement whilst he’s injured. Oh well. At least he’s playing games week in week out.

    I guarantee Smith Rowe won’t be with Fulham in 2 years. He’s too good for them.

      Claudius that title requirement for miracles didn't apply when our current manager was asked for top 4.

          QuincyAbeyie all I’m saying is finishing 4th or 5th is extremely different from finishing 1st or 2nd these days. You can have a lot of faulty players

            I watched Fabregas's interview on This is Football and he mentioned that he had offers from Chelsea, City and Man Utd in his final season at Barcelona. Annoyingly, Gary Lineker never asked him about Arsenal, but clearly there was no offer on the table from us. Hard to really dislike him after that if we didn't even want to re-sign him.

              Rightfully so after the way he left us. Like your girl leaving you for another bloke, when it doesn't work out expecting you to take her back. And then when you don't, deciding to get together with a bloke you hate.

                He's always been bitter that Wenger made no efforts to sign him when he wants to return.

                JazzG

                I didn't begrudge him for leaving, and it was the Barcelona players who were way more egregious than anything Cesc did in particular.

                I also didn't blame Wenger, if he had indeed chose not to re-sign him, as we had just signed Ozil and Ramsey had a breakout season.

                It does change things for me, though, as I was under the impression he refused to re-join.

                    Claudius

                    Chelsea won the league as soon as they bought him and paired him with Costa.

                      daredevil I had no problem with him leaving either. At the end of the day we were an ambitionless club at the time and he gave us 7 great seasons. Always gave his all and always showed up even when it felt like things were rock bottom.

                      The way he engineered his move and the lack of respect that was shown does however grate me. He did great for us but we also took a chance on him and built the team around him which allowed him to flourish. When the Barca players were disrespecting us he went along with it as he fancied his move and then he almost went on strike to get the move, that I could never forgive. Nobody would have begrudged him a move to the best team in the world, that was the level he deserved to be playing at.

                          JazzG i don't mind him leaving at all. we were completely useless.
                          what was annoying about that move was Xavi with this boulder-sized head always in the papers tapping up our player.

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                              JazzG
                              What about when he missed our game to go to the Monaco Grand Prix? Cuntish behaviour I’ll never forgive.