I have steadfastly refused to believe the rumours that continue to swirl over Cesc’s future at the Emirates. Why? Because Cesc has never shown that he loves Arsenal any less. He loves the club, the manager, the fans and I’m sure he also loves London if not the English weather. Because he is the captain of the Arsenal. And because he gave absolutely everything within his means in the season just gone, leading his team through difficult times, scoring 18 goals, creating probably as many, playing through injury, dragging us back into games like Villa and reacting like a proper captain when all that shit went down against Stoke. Because he martyred the rest of his season to give us hope in the second leg of the CL (even though he knew before he broke his leg he wouldn’t be playing in the second leg), wore his heart for Arsenal on his sleeve the whole season, fought hard with passion for the team. Yes, you know and I know and every Tom, Dick and Henry too that Cesc will go back to Barcelona one day but based on the above, no, I don’t think that day will come that soon.
Not to worry, this message was written by Cesc to Highbury prior to the move to the Emirates 
When his jersey number was still 15
And when he sported bad hair days1. He’s the most iconic player of the current Arsenal squad and his name has become synonymous with the famous club in recent years.
2. He’s both angry about the fact that Arsenal haven’t won a trophy for four years, and he feels it’s time to start winning things for the club.
3. Fàbregas is to Arsenal as what Messi is to Barcelona. But he is a product of Arsenal youth academy rather than of La Masia.
4. He is the only player with Barca DNA in the PL and in Arsenal, while at La Liga and Camp Nou he’d be one of many.
5. Thanks mostly to him, Arsenal keep performing the most aesthetic club football in England and, after Barca, in Europe.
6. He seems to be enjoying his football in the PL, turning the corner from potentially world class, to one of the best players in the world.
7. The day Arsenal will win the CL, and it could come sooner rather than later, he’ll become the all-time greatest club legend, bigger than Jennings, Brady, Adams, Wright, Vieira, Bergkamp and/or Henry.
8. Barcelona’s midfield is already the best in the world, while Andres Iniesta, the next Barca skipper, is just 25.
9. Why should he join Sylvinho, Henry and Hleb? To be yet another proof that Arsenal are Barca’s feeder club? Or to provide Barcelona’s chief candidate for presidency, Rosell, the ticket to his presidency, along with the transfer of Aguero.
10. Real Madrid? Didn’t they claim several times CF isn’t their target?
Wenger knows the reasons why Cesc should stay and Arsenal’s position on this is crystal clear as enumerated here.
If and when he goes, I will be very heartbroken. I will be devastated, crushed, gutted, disappointed and terribly sad. But I will not hate him. I will never hate him. And yes, the idea of a Gooner girl living thousands of miles away being heartbroken over a footballer leaving the club she supports may sound troubling and probably warrants some kind of analysis but there you go, blame my passion for football on this. And for those who don’t understand why some people blog about football or other sports (or anything they have a passion for like hobbies or interests etc) and a distant, foreign football club at that, well, I believe in life, you need to have a passion for something, a belief in the cause, because in turn, you will have more passion for life.
For the time, please stay, Cesc, please stay. I beg you, I beseech you, I plead to you. Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, Please Don’t Go...
And especially you, baby
Hmmm... let me think about it
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