It’s only a matter of time before the newspapers and Sky Sports say ‘Breaking news: Fabregas doesn’t say that he doesn’t want to leave Arsenal and join Barcelona’ or ‘Cesc in Barca wish. Cesc Fabregas has today hinted, despite not having any interviews or issuing any quotes, that he intends to join

It’s just getting ridiculous how the media twist the Fabregas stories. Even when he is committing himself to Arsenal, they twist it to fit their wishes and make it sound as if he wants to join them. Like today, Fabregas has said he is happy at Arsenal, has been for 8 years, he’s praised the manager, the fans and the players and yet the headline of Sky Sport’s website is ‘Fabregas admits frustration’ to make it sound as if he is unhappy and therefore wants to go. When in actual fact he is saying ‘any player who says they aren’t frustrated at not winning a trophy is lieing’ and isn’t hinting at all that he wants to leave. It winds me up so much.

The ugly bloke on SSN follows reading these Arsenal committing quotes from our captain by saying ‘well he has been on holiday in Barcelona’ with an intrigued tone. Yes, that because his family live there dooshbag! He’s on holiday to them! Just because he’s been to Barcelona to see his family on holiday doesn’t mean he wants to leave Arsenal and join Barcelona does it? Lionel Messi’s been at Arsenal twice in the last year or so- does he want to join Arsenal and leave Barcelona?!

I can imagine in the year 3041 that Sky Sport News HDGSP channel 11098 will issue a breaking news bulletin saying:

‘Fabregas in Barcelona wish- Cesc wants to go’

‘But he’s been dead for years’

‘No he hasn’t! He’s joining Barcelona, whether he’s dead or not! We will not give up! He will join! He’s got to! Mark our words! It will be in your iPapers tomorrow!

It really does wind me up how they disrespect the club and its fans so constantly with these twisted Fabregas stories, willing him to go. What if he did go? What would they mindlessly speculate about then? They’d all be out of a job!

There’s no way they’d do it either if he played under Ferguson at Man Utd. They wouldn’t dare upset Fergie! But no, he plays for Arsenal and who cares about them? They haven’t won anything for a massive 6 years, so let’s disrespect them some more! Do you think this is why they do it so much- because we haven’t won anything in a few years? I’d love to know because they do seem to have it in for us, especially for Wenger.

On the positive however, atleast this is some good news. It’s nice to see Fabregas committing himself to the club and talking optimistically about the future, not to mention praising our fan base! It looks like there won’t be another massive transfer saga regarding him this summer- fingers crossed anyway!

Mean Lean’s Response

It is the whole Arsenal in crisis angle that the media are always looking for. It has been happening for years. There is always a new player that the media would like to drive out of Arsenal and into the hands of a foreign team. From Patrick Vieira, Thierry Henry to today and Cesc.

We all know that Cesc would like to go to Barcelona at some point and that point might be right now. Barcelona have not yet offered us a bid that suits us. The rest is just media nonsense. I thought that most of the nonsense was via the Spanish press until I read these wonderful two pieces at Untold Arsenal.

Cesc, the hidden truth about the transfer saga in the media
Cesc, the hidden truth in the transfer saga in the media – part 2 – Why it suddenly stopped