Arsenal fan view: it will sting to see Cesc Fàbregas line up for Chelsea | Andrew Mangan

Cesc Fàbregas was an icon of the very best of what Arsène Wenger wanted to achieve with youth, and a doleful example of how it didnt happen

Towards the end of last season I interviewed Cesc Fàbregas for a book I was writing. We spoke for about an hour, and at the end of the phone conversation, he said, Ill see you soon at the Emirates! the implication being that he would end up back at Arsenal at some point. Hell be back all right, just not in red and white.

Arsène Wenger has discovered some exciting young talent in his time but nothing like Fàbregas. He was a once in a lifetime discovery. Wenger knew it, and we knew it as fans. He was the kind of player you build a team around, and the Frenchman did just that, selling the imperious, although waning, Patrick Vieira to make room in the midfield for the teenage Spaniard.

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