CESC – READY TO GO?

Care to expand on who these reliable well informed sources might be Vic?

Not even 2 weeks ago he said he wasn’t in a rush. Now he wants to leave? No! Just because the Spanish Press have said so, and Sky Sports News “understand” that he has told Wenger (who is apparently abroad by the way, does not make it so. Sky Sports News also “understood” that Arshavin was flying back to Russia, when in fact he was having his medical and signing for our club. The only source Sky have to go on are those puppets in the Spanish press, who would swear black was white if Barca or Real told them to. How many times had Vieira signed for Madrid? And all these “Wenger Out” twats want to take a minute and consider what this man has done for this club. He is a genius.

If this happens the fans should demand the resignation of Wenger and the board as it is down to them.They have been selling our stars and not replacing getting players on the cheap with a transfer budget of a religation team the only way to redeem this is bring in at least two big name quality players such as torres

The simple fact is even if sesc doesnt leave Wenger wont buy big whitch we need to stand a chance… hes a great manager but hes stupid and ignorant when it comes to transfers if he doesnt buy and doesnt shocking next year then i believe the board say Buy or say Goodbye whitch i wouldnt like to see happen but the likes of Rosicky, denilson, Diaby arnt good enough nowhere near good enough Sell and replace….

Buy em cheap & sell em high!!!
Thats what we are!

Agree Wenger should go too!!

ps loosers giving me thumbs down can f off too!

I will only be gutted worse when Wenger comes out and says we have the talent on the squad so we don’t need to replace Cesc.

Quotes of the upcoming summer:
“No need to replace the goalies, Fabianski just needs confidence and games.”
“No need to replace Cesc, Nasri has always been meant for that role. It will also give a chance for the 18 year olds to get some experience. A big name signing would just hurt their progression.”
“No need to replace Gallas, Djourou is like a new signing. (Rejected CB from some other team) will be good cover with Sol for the season.”

Barcelona have a very strong midfield and attack..keita,toure,busquets,Xavi,iniesta + messi,ibr,bojan,pedro in attack,where will cesc play….he is not going to barcelona…Im sure hleb,henry will tell him the same….Dont go cesc please…….

of course i want cesc to stay but he will play because they will rotate the squad. Cesc wasn’t in the first team for spain but he still played quite alot in the euros. In the games he didn’t start he came on at half time and as Xavi isn’t getting any younger he will get quite alot of games. Don’t forget he still has about 10 years or more of his career left.

I dont think cesc will settle for anything other the sure place in the first XI..Im sure cesc will be playing in the arsenal colours for main more years to come…imagine if we win some silverware next year all these non sense talks will go away..
Cant imagine arsenal without cesc…

Let Cesc go, if he really want to go
Viera went and that’s when we knew Cesc…I’m tired of “I’m going to Barcelona/My heart is in Barcelona” allegedly said by Cesc.

“On the rooftops shouting out, baby I’m ready to go!”

Vic, I’ve got one for you: “Right smack dab in the middle of town, I’ve found a paradise that’s trouble free, UP ON THE ROOOOOF …”

That’s where I’m going, with my Fabregas4 2007/08 kit, a bottle of Jack and a pipe … I’ll be down when Wenger signs a rightful replacement, and there aint many of them kicking around.

This is like a bad dream it really is, but if he wants to go then there’s no point in holding on to him. I am dissappointed by Cesc though don’t going around saying you’re happy and the next thing we know he’s asking for a transfer, the fans deserve more respect then that.

Also I am not sure we will sign a replacement Arshavin has always stated he wants a more central role and I think that is what he’ll get. Our midfield will probably be Arshavin-Toure(if part of the deal)- and Song.

Lastly for those calling for Wenger’s head, thank God you’re not in cahrge of the club, the last thing we need is to lose the manager along with our star player. A new manager will require funds to build a new team which clearly we do not have, and then we’re back to same dicussion of the new guy not being good enough. The fact is the new stadium took up a lot of funds but it had to be built to ensure the team will be able to compete in the long term. one only needs to look at Liverpool and the more extreme example of Charlton to see where the club could find itself without proper planning.

Chelsea won the league but still wants top quality players this summer. Man utd also set to buy some expensive players. City and Spurs chase highly rated signings but would not come cheap. But Arsenal opted to retain players who almost disappointed us and never go up every season. It’s Wenger’s fault if Fabregas leave. Wenger failed to justify the capability of his squad. Wenger, open your eyes!

Agreed, give it to Song he has been a fan of Arsenal since he was young and always dreamt of playing for them! But i think it will go to Vermaelen.

Pipe? Jim get off the crack, man!

I’m afraid I’m not in a position to be more explicit about my sources. I promised them confidentiality. I’ll only say that I HATE transfer rumours. I honestly believe my sources are relaying accurate information. All of them would love Cesc to stay but doubt there’s any real chance that he will.

Those who read my blogs regularly will know that I’m on the sceptical side when it comes to the board’s intentions. I am worried that they’re putting their own interests above those of the club. That said a real good way to damage Arsenal as a business is to let great players like Cesc leave.

I honestly believe he’s made his mind up to go home. Whist the most irritating aspect of Barcelona, a club and an institution I generally admire, is its contant tapping up of players, I don’t think this is a case of them unsettling him, more Cesc’s own decision to go home.

I hope so, so much that the word I’m getting is wrong. I won’t give a monkey’s if I’m ridiculed if Cesc announces he’s staying. His continued presence at Arsenal will be more than enough for me.

I fear we’ve seen the last of him in Arsenal colours though.

One thought – I don’t think it’s about buying big it’s about buying right. With their hands on our hearts, whom among us had much of a clue about Patrick Vieira, Emmanuel Petit, Nicolas Anelka, Lauren, Robert Pires or Thomas Vermaelen before we signed them. All class acts.

Spending big isn’t the same as spending wisely. I’m all for splashing the cash on both transfer fees and wages for the right players. I’m against spending money a) we haven’t got or b) for the sake of spending it.

That said we all know we need to strengthen.

[quote name=harper-1]I can’t really blame him, he wants to win trophies. He knows he won’t win any with us.

John Cross on twitter said he’s definitely gone. The sources are good ones this time, not the usual Spanish media sh!te.

Gutted, just gutted.[/quote]Fuck you

If there is no statementt from the club/Cesc by tomorrow, then its bye bye Cesc

Lets all say a pray tonight before we go asleep that a statement comes!!!

im sick of seeing our team get raped by these spainish fuckers, every year! can anyone remember a summer when we one of our players didnt fuck off? players showing loyalty, british players perhaps???

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Quotes of the upcoming summer:
“No need to replace the goalies, Fabianski just needs confidence and games.”
“No need to replace Cesc, Nasri has always been meant for that role. It will also give a chance for the 18 year olds to get some experience. A big name signing would just hurt their progression.”
“No need to replace Gallas, Djourou is like a new signing. (Rejected CB from some other team) will be good cover with Sol for the season.”[/quote]
Okay, so that made me laugh! Yes typical Wenger.

Cesc himself said he wants to sort out his future before the World Cup. If you have four years remaining on your contract then what is there to sort out?

He’s a brilliant player but if he does go he must be replaced with another baller of his class.

yes, he is the best player in a team which IS NOT good enough and he is the only one with a CHANCE of getting in the Invincibles, i couldnt see him getting above vieira nor gilberto, can you? he would av sat on the bench like he will at barca n if thats wot he wants then good luck to him. In honesty i wish him all the best cos who wouldnt want to go to barca, especially if your a catalunian, they r the best team in the world. im sad that hes leaving but i think it is an over reaction to say its the end of us, weve dealt with bigger and better players leaving in the past

Well I really did not see this coming. Of course we all knew he’d go to Barca eventually, but I thought it would be next summer at the earliest. The whole things poses a lot of questions. Will Barca stump up the cash needed? 30 million is an absolute joke for a team that paid €69 for Zlatan. Cesc is 23 years old, meaning his best years are ahead of him and his re-sale value in the future will still be high for the next 5 years. In short, Barca can cough up or piss off.

As for Cesc, well his desire to move is ultimately understandable. He feels about Barca the way we feel about Arsenal. Barca are winning trophies right now, Arsenal are not and do not look like they will without serious investment in new players. I very much doubt Cesc trusts Wenger to buy the required players after the past 5 years. Playing against Barca at the Emirates and witnessing first hand the enormous difference between us and them may have been a turning point for Cesc. He won’t be a first choice player for them, but Iniesta is very injury prone and Xavi will need a rest. Cesc will get enough games and a lot of trophies.

Where do we go from here? Well we won’t find a direct replacement for Cesc. They are all at Barca and won’t be moving to us. It will require a different team, and a different style. I’m not convinced that’s a bad thing. Cesc thrived in the 4-3-3, but not too many others did. Ask Sagna and Clichy what they think of 4-3-3 and the reply will not be very positive. It left us too exposed at the back. A return to the 4-4-2 of 2003/2004 may work out, with solidity in the middle (Song and Toure perhaps?) and creativity from the wings.

Cesc is a great player, but ultimately he’s won nothing for us. It’s sad, but nothing compared to the day Vieira left. I was depressed for about a year after that.

May or may not be true, i think true he will go, i cant blame him, but back to Guillem Balagué this is the same bloke who said that Melo would be at arsenal 99%, the season just past, so he maybe prone to a bit of bad info like the rest of us. There was life before cesc, ther will be life after him. I for 1 wish him well, in the main he has played his heart out and in my opinion has been let down by either the board or AW who-ever controls the purse strings, average beside quality dosent mix, so y should he stick around for another year with average players and MAYBE get a trophy, for the 1st time in 5 years. All this and still no sign of quality players coming in, i seem to remember AW saying we would only sign quality players for 3 years now only then to say when the window closes that there was no quality players avialable, e cant get them all on free transfers, and it wudn surprise me if that 1 went tits up over money(wages).

Mark – You assholes wont beat us for another 16 years, youve been in our shadow long enough to no that youll always be there, ha ha. Some1 told me that at the spuds pre historic ground, that instead of a key to get into the empty trophy room you simply pull down on a false lantern, scooby doo style. Cos no1 bin there for YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You tootnam MUGS

if cesc to go no probs….the only annoying thing is wen wenger comes out to say buyin experience will kill d younger ones who fuck us day by day…..the players dont show loyalty neither should d club.

Keith, are you a spurs fan having a giggle? I can half understand where your coming from saying we need to replace the big guns when they go, with “Arshavin-like” signings. But then you go and say stupid things like get rid of Wenger and buy Torres! A lot has been said about Wenger being a victim of his own success and it’s definitely true. And Torres is said to cost £70m – we already have RVP who also suffers from a terrible injury record.

And to the other “fans”, who say Cesc won’t get in the Barca team, are you sure?!?! He certainly wasn’t just the 12th best player on the pitch in the first leg, and will undoubtedly be the future of Barca alongside Messi and Pique.

Fingers crossed Wenger persuades him to stay for a bit longer with the promise of some big (but realistic!) signings in the summer.

to those who are critising Wenger get a life if it wasnt for him you wouldnt have seen such players as Cesc ect…Wengers hands are tied in this one im afraid,thougfh maybe this will be the year Wenger will just say no son you arnt leaving end of story then!!

Lets face the facts, Cesc is going to go, this year probably, maybe next. What we’ve got to do is get the maximum amount of cash out of the deal – not like what we did with Henry.
To be honest, I’m not convinced that he’s the player that the media has hyped him to be, I’d much rather see him go and get the flamster back.

jbc yopd want flamini to the ahem overhyped Cese…i dout your football brain get real!!