Friday 24 April 2015

Arsenal's Manager has not spoken to Fabregas since he returned to England

It may be that Wenger is waiting until after
Arsenal’s clash with Chelsea at the Emirates
Stadium on Sunday to share a handshake and a
catch-up with Fabregas.
Wenger, the Arsenal manager, may also feel there
is no need to make a special effort to speak to
Fabregas, just as he would not contact any other
player from a rival club.
The silence has not altered the fact that Fabregas
remains grateful to Wenger for bringing him to
England as a 16-year-old and making him Arsenal
captain at the age of 21.
But Wenger’s stance over the midfielder has been
baffling since he was first offered the opportunity
to re-sign the Spaniard the week before last
season’s FA Cup final.
Arsenal made a big play of the fact they managed
to negotiate a first-option clause in the deal
which took Fabregas back to Barcelona in 2011.
It was agreed that Arsenal could re-sign Fabregas
for the £30 million they sold him for, should the
player tell Barca he wanted to return.
Wenger said publicly more than once that he
believed Fabregas would one day return to north
London and potentially finish his career with
Arsenal. So there was more than an element of
surprise when Wenger did not jump at the chance
to re-sign Fabregas when he was first offered
back to Arsenal a week before they secured a
first trophy in nine years.
Wenger did not give an immediate 'non'. He
instead did not give a definitive answer, allowing
Barcelona to look elsewhere for buyers. The
Spanish club approached Chelsea, Manchester
United, who had tried to sign Fabregas a year
earlier, and Manchester City.
Within a couple of days of being offered
Fabregas, Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho
informed his son that he would have to miss his
final game of the season so he could meet the
player personally.

-The Telegraph

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