He wasn't talked around.
He made it clear he wanted to leave and left it in Arsenal's hands to decide whether they'll accept a bid from Barca.
He was talked around, that is clear as day.
Henry, offers, came down to it a big talk happened, he was persuaded to stay another year, he left for half the value next season.
Vieira same deal, how did we persuade RVP to stay, more empty promises, what happened last season the "big meeting" where Wenger persuaded Fabregas to give it more time, he then went on to sign a bunch of crap defenders and no one useful and had a pretty pathetic season, get to joke cup final by playing stronger teams than ever before, face one of the weakest teams in a final we've met in 15 years, lose due to the crap player Wenger bought after making promises about improving........ while losing the best CB we've had since Adam's.
Anyone who thinks he's worth the same is kidding themselves. Wenger made promises, which going on previous promises amount to "don't go this year and I won't make it hard to leave next time".
I don't care about losing Fabregas, infact it might be the best thing to happen to the club, Fabregas is so far ahead of anyone else Arsenal have, RVP included, that without him in the team we're liable to drop out the top 4 and realistically seems like the only way the "trust Wenger" brigade will give up, and the board/owners aswell.
While Fabregas drags Theo/Song/Diaby/Sagna's rubbishness into a champs league spot Wenger seems to be safe, Cesc goes, we'll have a very rubbish season unless we get a new flukey 17yr old Barca player who can be almost as good.
Fabregas also deserves to win things, for Spain you can literally see the difference between Spain with, and without Fabregas, he's freaking awesome, the only reason some people scoff when you say he's better than Iniesta/Xavi, is he's been stuck at Arsenal in a pants team.
Cesc needs to go and Arsenal need Wenger to go, Cesc leaving is probably the failure Arsenal need to get shot of Wenger and rebuild.
Don't get me wrong, my ideal outcome is Wenger goes, we get in someone half competant, Fabregas stays to see what changes happen, we clean the dross out and replace it with a mix of potentially good people, and actually good people, and see if improving makes him want to stay.
AS I've pointed out time, and time, and time again, its NOT that Diaby/Denilson/Chamakh/Theo/etc/etc aren't good enough, its that Wenger simply can't see they aren't good enough. If he had sold them, and bought a young guy with potential and they turned out to be crap, thats one thing, at least its trying, but he thinks what we have is top quality and isn't looking for replacements, thats why Arsenal aren't improving but getting worse.
