This is not an article discussing who is the better player because we all know who that is but actually about loyalty.
I've been hearing for months about how Fabregas doesn't want to be here and that we should let him go to Barca or just cash in on him while we can. The sad thing is most of the people I hear this from is my own fellow Gooners.
Today I have woke up to the news that Modric has come out and stated he would like to leave Spurs (to join Chelsea) and it got me thinking. Chelsea's interest in Modric has been made public for a matter of days and despite Modric having no affiliation with them whatsoever, his head has already been turned and he hasn't even tried to hide it.
Cesc on the other hand has been courted by his boyhood club for YEARS. It almost seems a weekly occurrence that a Barca player or representative comes out and says something that would persuade Cesc to manufacture a move away from Arsenal yet to this day, Cesc has never tried to do so and has always spoke well about his future in public.
It's amazing that Cesc, who has been chased by his boyhood club for years, who happen to currently be the best team in the world and possibly the greatest of all time, has never come out and said what Barca want him to say. In fact in the past he has even come out and criticised the way Barca are always courting Arsenal players, yet here we have Luka Modric who still has 5 years left on his contract cutting his links with the Spurs fans who idolise him by stating he wants to join one of their most bitter rivals.
Loyalty is an extremely difficult thing to find in football and we are extremely lucky that our captain and best player at least knows the meaning of the word. Instead of us discussing on why we should sell him or what the best deal we could get out of Cesc his, can we not just cherish and appreciate him while he is at our club? I just think it is so classy how a guy who's future is always the main subject of any interview he gives is able to rise above it and the abuse he takes on his Twitter page and still say he is happy at Arsenal and that he has no plans on leaving.
On top of all this, shouldn't we give Nasri a chance before we all judge him wrongly and turn on him? Just because Adebayor treated us like dirt doesn't mean every other player in contract negotiations with Arsenal is going to do the same thing. People forget that when Nasri joined Arsenal it nearly took 2 months to finalise the deal. He has a dodgy agent who is just trying to squeeze every penny for as long as possible. And to be fair, he has every right to. Wenger does it with all his transfers - how many times are our players signed at the end of August?!
Fabregas vs Modric
posted on 18/6/11
posted on 18/6/11
Lol. The only mugs will be the numpties who think Modric will be going anywhere this summer.
We'll be laughing at you
posted on 18/6/11
It'll only be a matter of time
Keane wasn't going anywhere...
Berbatov wasn't going anywhere...
Bottom line is these days players have so much power that 95% of the time if a player wants to leave a club, he does. Better hope Modric is in that 5%.
Besides either way the damage has been done at Spurs. When your best player comes out ans says one of your bitterest rivals is a "Bigger Club" with an "ambitious owner" and that he wants to join them to play Champions League Football and win things that is bound to hurt not only the fans, but the manager, players, chairman, owner and everybody connected at the club. It would be different if it was some also-ran or player that was out of favour, but this is your best player we are talking about
For all the stick you have given Arsenal fans down the years, Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira, Hleb and most of the talented players Arsenal have had in recent years have all left on good terms and still maintain a good relationship with the fans. And when Fabregas does go to Barcelona (which he will), I think he will be treated in similar vein to Henry and other Arsenal legends.
Like Chelsea, most of Arsenal's players have been with them for a while now and you'd like to think in that period they have grown to have some sort of affinity for that club.
I think United will go in for Nasri, but I'd be very surprised if he went. Very rarely do players leave clubs like Chelsea and Arsenal unless it is to play abroad, where Spurs players are concerned, they know there are bigger and better things out there for them in England alone, as Keane, Carrick, Berbatov, Sherringham, Sol Campbell and now Modric have all realised
posted on 18/6/11
Never Blowing Bubbles (U7929)
Well said, and welcome aboard the ja606 love train
posted on 18/6/11
The Adventures Of Batmanu Eboué & Robin Van Persie (U2725)
posted on 18/6/11
Thing is, we'll never become a dominant force in football if we keep allowing all our best players to leave. We've got to make a statement, not only to the other top clubs, but also to our players, that coming to Spurs is not a short term beauty parade putting them in the shop window to United, City or Chelsea.
posted on 18/6/11
Thing is, we'll never become a dominant force in football
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Let me stop you there
posted on 18/6/11
We finished only 6 points behind you. Had we had any three other strikers, other than the inept numpties that we have, we would have finished above you, of that there is little doubt. We may even have finished 3rd.
All we need are a couple of decent strikers, and we'll be among the favourites for a top 4 finish next season.
So, yes, we are a dominant force.
posted on 18/6/11
I was only winding you up Tottenham1963
posted on 18/6/11
You got me!