"Barcelona stars have made Cesc even better"

David Villa: "Barcelona's stars have made Cesc Fabregas even better than he was at Arsenal."

The day after he left Arsenal he won 2 silverware. He has scored in almost every game he played in as Barca player. There is no doubt that he is showing his real caliber now and the saddest part is that he is no longer a part of Arsenal FC.

Messi is regarded as the best player in the world and no doubt he is. If you watch his game closely half of the goals Messi does is always as a result of a good pass in. With the world class mid fielder like Xave and Inesta and solid left back like Dani Alves even an average striker could be world class. But here we have world class strikers and world mid fielders playing side by side making the club truly the world champions. Their recent run has met a hurdle but they didn't lose the game, they drawn it and got a point in both the games. 

Should we have players like Pires, Bergkamp and Henry playing along side Cesc like in the past, this guy would have been our golden luck charm. Even the precense of Wilshere, Ramsey and Nasri along side Cesc was a great factor for him. But he didn't play up to this level that he is playing now.

At one point Villa's claim is right but on the other hand if we see the history of this transfer we will see that Cesc never wanted to be at Arsenal for last 3 years. He wanted to go home. It was like preventing a young blood from going to his home land where lies his soul. So you can't expect a player even a world class player to perform in such circumstances.

Something is very wrong at Arsenal. How can you lose so much in 6 years. You lose all your great players , your silver ware. Every good thing about the gunners, they just lost it to time. Players don't like to stay here. Good players seek to leave the club as soon as they get the opportunity. There is absolutely no check on the players. The money the club get after selling its star players, not even half of it is spent again. 

Many critiques blamed Wenger for buying injury prone players and that too on the dead line day. Arsenal put up 26 million for M'Villa but his club were stern on 20 million for the player. Watching the Chelsea game I was convinced that Juan Mata holds a lot of potential especially when it comes to passing. 

The second half of our game against Blackburn showed the poor passing of our new signings. They are good signings but Arsenal needed Mata. They needed Cahill, M'villa, Eden Hazard. Had we got those players Arteta would have been an icing on the cake. Still our wings are solid , midfield good too, defense poor and over all our team is of the same level as Totenham or any other team of sixth or seventh position in EPL. Even that is looking unlikely now owing to our poor start or should I say worst start of the season.

The players are like beads attached to a single string. Each bead depends upon the others. All of them move with same precision and accuracy. If one bead is missing the whole chain will break down. If you want to make one great player, you have to have 10 great players behind him. If Torres was great at liverpool, he had Gerrard at his back. If Rooney is a great player then he got the greatest at his back in the form of Giggs and Vidic. Its the team that produce greatness not individuals. Fabregas was great at Arsenal, He would have been the greatest had we got some good players at back to support him.

When your defense plays you down, why do you expect results from the strikers? The back getting self destruct, still Chamakh, RVP and Gervinho attacked in front. This shows that these players are so desperate for support now. They are doing great. They are showing that they can perform really well even if the defense is failing them time and again. So, what if we repaired that back line? what if we can get a world class wall at the back? these players would go ahead with more confidence. The team would be top class again. All we need is to do something at the back. Wenger can't just rely on attack after attack while giving goals away. We make the opposition believe in them selves rather than making our team get the confidence through our brittleness and lack of focus. 

After every game I hear this line "the team lacked focus" Its been so many years still the players can concentrate and focus on the game for just 90 minutes. After all what is there that distract our players on the field. Once they start getting pounded they go down and down.

In short you won't be able to utilize the true potential of the players if you don't get the right team in and if you don't take out the weak points that lies among those 11 men. And among those weaknesses our defense takes the lead. Januaray window should be the time for Wenger to replace Kocielny with Cahill as he is the weakest and we must get Samba as well owing to our injury prone defense. Two defenders are must for Wenger if he ever want to bring the confidence back in to the team!