2009–10 27 league games 15 goals 15 assists
2010–11 25 league games 3 goals 14 assists
He didn't have anything like the same return last season.
Thats on top of the fact that the last season has seen a recurring injury which puts marginally into doubt his fitness in the future, the previous season he broke his leg, came back absurdly quickly, and got the assist to win the World Cup. He was epic, winning stuff, scoring, assisting, this season he's been sporadic due to the injury , year less on his contract, and Barca simply have less money.
As said, the negotiating could have started any time, Wenger needed to publically name his price and Barca would have matched it much more quickly, all this papers think Arsenal want closer to 40mil, just state that, if they match it, they'd do it quicker, if not, tell Fabregas he's staying, this haggling is worthless.
The thing is though, there was nothing stopping us signing his replacement 2 months ago, and selling Cesc today, the difference is the timing.
How good was Young today, won them the game, assist and a kinda goal, he created both basically. Would Young have been as good if he joined the Utd squad yesterday?
Utd showed their intentions in day one of the transfer window, hard agressive, didn't massively overpay for anyone despite going early, got WHO THEY WANTED, not who was left on the last day of August when people are desparate.
Wengers a complete ******, I don't even care, I don't trust he'll buy the right players, because he hasn't for years. When our attack was awesome and our defence was crumbling, he bought Arshavin, when are defence is still a problem, he sells a striker, loans a striker, and buys 3 strikers............
We've needed a DM since the day Gilberto left, and we still don't have one.
The board are weak idiots, should have fired Wenger, appointed someone at the latest when the English transfer window opened and have had most of our deals sorted early.
Look how many deals Utd have gotten done, De Gae, Young, Jones, Brown, O'shea, Obertan. Arsenal have been trying to wrap up Bendtner, Eboue, Cesc for months on end and none of those three have actually gone yet and the seasons already started.
Nasri should have been sorted, CLichy got done pretty quickly, surprisingly quickly, replacements for all 5 should have been bought, and from early indications a DAMN site better than Gervinho, who for 12mil, its very early days but yesterdays performance was gash even ignoring the red card.
How much is the extra 10mil we've got from the Cesc deal really worth, other than screwing a player out of 5 mil himself, a guy whose made us 20+ times than since he's been at Arsenal. We've already dropped points, we bought Gervinho on the cheap rather than buying maybe a more expensive and better player, if we screw up the Udinese game, which if we play like that, we will, thats 20-30mil lost this season alone.
All to wring an extra 10mil out of the Cesc deal, will it be worth it when due to lack of replacements we lose 20mil of income from the champs league.......... really?
