Choosing oneway or the other

"Cuando el barco de hunda, las ratas saltan"
[When the boat's sinking, the rats jump]





I am enraged at Cesc Fabrgas. His recent declarations have always take place in transfer windows since his inclussion to the first tema but this time he has crossed the line. While being a favorite amongst many posts of this blog he is the best player the Arsenal has produced in the ten years. Even though the critical approach in this space is fomented the fact that this statement was made has irritated me. Cesc has proved to be amongst the best performers of the team, really forming himself in the raanks of the London side. Winning the hearts and minds of the fans, Cesc has become the most cherised and loved player from the squad. His geniality has derived directly form the Wengerian philosophy, showing himself to be the best and the excellent practical examle of this style.

In Spain Cesc is ignored. The game he has been developing for the Arsenal side was ignored until players like Xavi and company understood that slow football is not the way out. Even with Euto victory Cesc was rested in favour of slower and less talented players such as Xavi, Iniesta or Senna. Dynamic players such as De la Red, Silva and Cesc were ignored, due to the latter being in the spotlight of the "otherness," The long and dull argument of Catalunya. Let my words be clear; I am not undermining any circumstsance of rebellion nor the blood shed of the heroes of Catalunya but I am tired of the role of victims that the Barcelona players and board members express, even in on the pitch.
Cesc wants to return to its roots, to play where he was refused to and also where is not admired by people. In Spain even Catalunyans who live in the outskirts of the city are called Spaniards and not Catalunyans. Cesc is regarded by Spaniards as a foreginer, a denizen who did not play nor did something for the country of Catalunya.


In this space I have shown my worst affections to all what Barcelona represents. The only thing that I respect from this club is my main inspiration, Johann Cruyff. Even when this sounds paradoxicall and contradictory whoever has read many posts or at least a considerable amount of them knows my support to his figure, which does not strive in the Barcelonism. I hate above all the teams in the world the FCB and what it represents. I hate all its player (even the pair of traitors in their starting XI), their institution and their history and whatever and whoever supports that team without any fundamented reason gains my despise. Far from being objective, these players from FCB are mediocre and untalented. This has ever happened since my youthful days of player as far as 1993.





Whether he wants to win titles or money is less important. He knows that he eventually will gain something at Arsenal and become captain of the aquad but it is true that the FCB is far more popular world wide in Arsenal. That does not matter at this moment, but what matters is how the team plays. Barcelona is "famous" for its style of play. But lets face it slow players like Xavi or Iniesta are so overwhelmelingly enlarged that, when everyone can make a deconstruction of a football match of them the values, individual, of this type of players diminishes to the minimum percentaje.
My theory concerning the victory of the Spanish side on the last EURO is not the game of Spain itself but the feedback brought to it. The resurgence of the EPL as the most importatn league in the world and the level-drop in Spain brought the ways of the world to look for some of this talent to the Isle. Cesc, at the early teenage, was brought at the ranks of the London side and players like Xabi Alonso, Reyes, Luis Garcia paved the way for Torres and Arbeloa. Spanish football since the last European Liverpool victory was taken seriously, but not by the Spanish. When this experience was capitalized and the feedback across the cannel was completed the Spanish game evolved.


I have been ignoring and evading the subject but it is time to face it. He is a talented player but today, today he has gained at least dome depise by yout humble writer, that will erventually disappear if he stays at Arsenal. Of course he is the heart of the team and the fact that his presence on the pitch changes the team is different from my despise to FCB, or is it the same?