I hope we included a fat sell on clause ….having said that the past is the past…do we really want hear to hear from him??? he and barca have bullied us out of the getting money for his true value. 15 million which would sign a decent player!!!

One thing i admire about him was his courage to stand up to Wenger in view of signings and the general trajectory of the club. Sportingwise, i believe he came to his tethers end bcos it became obvious that he couldnt win anything with the squad… which he was part of anyway.

In certain ways his comments made in an interview with the spanish press openly criticising Wenger and the clubs policy was the nail in the coffin. He had checked out mentally, last season.

Cesc Fabregas has promised Arsenal fans he will explain the decision to rejoin Barcelona, his boyhood club, in due course.

The Gunners captain returned to Barca after eight years in North London on Monday, ending months of speculation over his future.

The 24-year-old claims the Gunners enforced a strict vow of silence, and has lamented the fact he was unable to explain himself to the Arsenal faithful.

“I have time to talk about it and I’m sure I’ll do an interview especially for them,” he said.

“I’m sorry I couldn’t say anything in the last two and a half months, Arsenal wouldn’t allow me to talk to anyone, even if I wanted to I couldn’t.

“I’m disappointed and upset about it because I have had a great relationship with the fans over the years. It took time to build this and I’m disappointed I could lose some of them.

“All I have are words of gratitude. I’ll never forget what they have done for me, I gave absolutely everything to the club and I think they know that but it was the right time to come back here.

“I’m sorry I didn’t say anything to them in the last few months but I couldn’t. I was very, very sad to leave, I spent one third of my life there, eight years, so I’m very sad but life goes on.”

Big and hard lesson for Wenger…being brave in dismantling the invicibles and playing Cesc and Co. Must be heart wrenching after putting in 8 years of hard labour towards moulding a genuine world class player….only to leave in his prime.

Definitely calls for a massive if not an overhaul in the recruitment policy.

Time to start winning things and re-establishing the traditon/rebranding of the club. Otherwise thanks to the relentless negative media campaign and a few inpatient fans, arsenal might find it hard to attract world class players.

I think he is!