Francesc "Cesc" Fàbregas

[Raman93]

Har købt en Fabregas trøje i shoppen ved stadionet, men på trøjen er der ikke det 3-mærke, som der er på de trøjer, der bliver benyttet af spillerne? Håber sgu ikke jeg har givet 91 euro for noget fake shit, men det kan den vel ikke være, når den bliver købt i shoppen?

[zqa]

Det er ikke standard på trøjerne, man skal betale ekstra for at få det på...

[BarçaDK]

Ja det plejer at koster omkring 50 kroner, sindssygt i mine øjne, men brandet koster jo...

[Visca El Barca]

Her følger en rigtig god artikel om Cesc, skrevet af Graham Hunter. Han har nogle interessante pointer om, hvordan Cesc kan forbedre, vores i forvejen stærk trup. Der er det spillemæssige egenskaber, som han har, f.eks. mere er han meget mere målfarlig end Ini/Xavi og Keita, hvad angår mål. Graham pointerer dog også noget interessant, nemlig den fysiske del af Cescs spil, som han har lært i England, og som hverken Xavi eller Ini er i besiddelse af. Cesc kan godt give igen til de hårde hunde, og det vil være til stor gavn for os, især mod Real Madrid. Her, værsgo and enjoy;

Bench Cesc? That's a bit rich
Graham Hunter
August 20, 2011
The homecoming: Cesc Fabregas is welcomed back to the Nou Camp on Tuesday.

The homecoming: Cesc Fabregas is welcomed back to the Nou Camp on Tuesday. Photo: Getty Images

THERE is a modern footballer who has won the European Championship, the World Cup and whom clubs have been fighting over because they are willing to pay him up to $300,000 a week to play for them and lend him a private jet to fly home to visit his friends and family when he's off duty.

This man is sublimely gifted, young, reliable and not only hasn't fallen victim to the increasingly regular tendency for multimillionaire players to behave like utter clowns, he is dedicated to improving himself, representing his club and country with dignity and achieving everything that god's gifts have left him in a position to win.

Yes, you guessed it, his name is Cesc Fabregas. But, incredibly, the baggage he carries around with him, despite the fact that Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Barcelona have been fighting tooth and nail for his services all off-season, is that so many people believe he is going to spend so much time on the bench at the Camp Nou that he is in greater danger of getting splinters in his backside than dislodging one of Spain's World Cup-winning midfielders, Xavi, Iniesta, Busquets, from the Barca starting line-up.
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What a joke. If you can find it in your heart to feel sorry for this vastly wealthy young man then the reason to do so is that his development, which admittedly was accelerated at Highbury, has been stunted by Arsenal's decline and its inability to keep its prize asset, its wonderfully talented captain, properly fit for more than a few weeks at a time in recent years.

Cesc Fabregas has ''come home'' not just because he is a Catalan who supports Barca but because he fully understands that the challenge in front of him is precisely what he requires.

Just take a second to think of all the weapons in his armoury that his new teammates, Xavi, Iniesta and Busquets, do not possess.

First, Cesc is a natural goal-scorer. When he, Gerard Pique and Leo Messi shared the same youth team, and boy what a hellish prospect that must have been for the teams around Catalunya when the 2002 Barca Juvenil A side turned up at your ground of a Sunday afternoon, Fabregas would be someone to provide or score 20 goals or more a season.

Between Iniesta, Xavi and Busquets, your golden season of goals will, in total, yield perhaps 10 or 12.

Fabregas, by the time he is playing regularly and Pep Guardiola's physios have cured him of that niggling hamstring problem in much the same way they have made Messi fitter, leaner and stronger than he once was, will pay them back with 15 or 16 goals a season and probably give another 12 or 13 assists.

But he's got even more in his locker than that. His best return at Arsenal was 19 goals and 19 further goal assists in the same season - 2009-10. That kind of return is gold dust for a team that wants to repeatedly win the top competitions - an extra resource for the league matches when the other team ''parks the bus'' in front of goal, an away goal in the Champions League which counts double for the return leg, the kind of guy who will be alert and rapid in extra time like he was in the World Cup final when his pounce on the ball and lovely quick pass sent Iniesta free to score that goal.

Next? Well Cesc has steel. I well remember when Arsenal needed to qualify for the Champions League in 2007 and drew a potentially horrible tie in Prague against Sparta. It was a pretty brutal battle and Tomas Repka, a hard man of the first order, was looking to impose himself physically. Fabregas took about one minute to decide what to do about Repka running around trying to damage Arsenal players in order to drag Sparta back into the tie and get the notoriously volatile fans behind them.

He thumped in one absolutely bone-crunching challenge on the Czech, admittedly went a little over the ball and the thug was out-thugged.

Xavi and Iniesta simply don't possess that and while Busquets is capable of it he has never had to survive in the bare-knuckle school of hard knocks that is English football.

What's more, Fabregas not only brings a challenge to the three existing first-choice midfielders, he is in no way affected by the kind of mental and physical rust that inevitably will start to gnaw away at sportsmen when they win over and over again.

Fabregas has had to sit and brim with frustration while his best friend Pique not only returned home from England first but proceeded to win everything in sight and vault ahead of Cesc in terms of being in line to inherit the Spain or the Barca captaincy - or both.

So Fabregas arrives at the Camp Nou, where at least 30,000 people turned out to swathe him in adoration when he signed for Barcelona this week, absolutely brimful of determination to win and to emulate the achievements of his new teammates over the past three years.

Yet, still, people in England, Arsenal fans in particular, continue to argue that this is a man whom Barca have paid about $55 million, despite the fact that perhaps he's going to be nothing more than a substitute

I don't think so.

And perhaps there is a final point to bear in mind when analysing what kind of future there is for the prodigal son back at Barcelona.

Cesc Fabregas left Catalonia because he was a man in a hurry. He was bored and frustrated at not being promoted quickly enough through the youth ranks and into the senior team when he was good enough for Arsenal to give a first-team debut at 16 and good enough to reach the FIFA under-16 World Cup final in 2003.

But he also left, partially, because his parents were going through a divorce. There was pressure on him from both mother and father to go and live with one of them in a situation that every child of a broken family knows and shudders at. How to choose between parents?

One of the motors that drove him to leave was the idea of avoiding that problem. So while learning, growing, achieving at Arsenal has been satisfying and lucrative for him, it hasn't addressed the ingrained feeling that he left the club which he supports, and by whom he was groomed, too soon.

Joining Arsenal wasn't a mistake. Leaving Barcelona has been, in some ways, good for his game, for his maturity, for his understanding of international football and good for his bank balance.

But coming back is not just good for him, it is essential.

We are, with any luck, about to see the flowering of someone who is not only a first-class footballer but who has the capability of becoming an all-time Spanish legend, a leader of the greatest club side in history and a happy young Barcelona fan who happens to be well paid and well adored for leading the club he loves through a golden era of trophies and veneration.

[Ronaldinho]

Fábregas spillede uden tilladelse
Ifølge spansk presse havde Fábregas ikke sine papirer i orden hos det spanske fodbold-forbund, da han i onsdags blev skiftet ind i Super Cup-kampen i det 82. minut.

Catalanerens debut var ellers længe ventet blandt Barcelonas fans, men ifølge dommer Fernández Borbaláns kamp-rapport manglede spiller-licensen den endelige godkendelse i det spanske fodboldforbund og i stedet tog man til takke med spillerens pas og tilladelsen fra den spanske ligaforening, LFP, som intet havde at gøre med Super Cup-kampen, som alene kører i RFEF-regi.

Fernández Borbalán skrev i sin kamp-rapport:

- Spiller nr. 4 fra Barcelona, D. Francesc Fábregas Soler, kunne ikke fremvise sin spillerlicens fra forbundet, men viste sit originale pas sammen med tilladense fra den professionelle Ligaforening.

Umiddelbart ventes fodfejlen ikke at få nogen konsekvenser for Barcelona eller for Cesc Fábregas.

Madridista.dk

Passer det? Første gang jeg læser dette, og har kun fundet det på Madridista......

[Blaugrana92]

Den er god nok. Det står i den dommerrapport der er tilgængelig på RFEF's hjemmeside.

[Parla]

Fábregas spillede uden tilladelse
Ifølge spansk presse havde Fábregas ikke sine papirer i orden hos det spanske fodbold-forbund, da han i onsdags blev skiftet ind i Super Cup-kampen i det 82. minut.

Catalanerens debut var ellers længe ventet blandt Barcelonas fans, men ifølge dommer Fernández Borbaláns kamp-rapport manglede spiller-licensen den endelige godkendelse i det spanske fodboldforbund og i stedet tog man til takke med spillerens pas og tilladelsen fra den spanske ligaforening, LFP, som intet havde at gøre med Super Cup-kampen, som alene kører i RFEF-regi.

Fernández Borbalán skrev i sin kamp-rapport:

- Spiller nr. 4 fra Barcelona, D. Francesc Fábregas Soler, kunne ikke fremvise sin spillerlicens fra forbundet, men viste sit originale pas sammen med tilladense fra den professionelle Ligaforening.

Umiddelbart ventes fodfejlen ikke at få nogen konsekvenser for Barcelona eller for Cesc Fábregas.

Madridista.dk

Passer det? Første gang jeg læser dette, og har kun fundet det på Madridista......

Ville da undre mig hvis Real Madrid ikke finder på noget, de vil jo gøre alt for at vinde.

[Visca El Barca]

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Han er nuttet.

[Visca El Barca]

Cesc er bare klasse, han tog det meget roligt, selvom han blev savet af Marcelo, og efterfølgende var han også rolig i sine kommentarer. Spurgt om, hvad han mener om at Casillas har beskyldt ham for at falde til jorden, for let, siger Cesc;

Cesc: "Casillas saying I acted after Marcelo tackle? That's said in the heat of the moment. When you lose, any excuse is good sometimes."

. Pinligt for Casillas, og klasse af Cesc at han tager det så roligt, men alligevel, på sin egen måde sender et stikpille:P.

Om holdet og sammenhold i truppen siger han bl.a;

Cesc: "This is the most united group I've ever been part of. Unity is strength, and it's clear you see that on the pitch too." [barça tv]

Cesc: "At Arsenal I could move the way I wanted, here I have to focus more. I still have a lot left to learn, I hope to keep on improving."

[rummenigge]

Cesc er bare klasse. Super udtalelse og så er det en ærlig udmelding.

Indtil videre har Cesc langt overgået mine tårnhøje forventninger. Jeg ved godt at han skal bevise sit værd på banen, men der er bare noget helt særligt ved denne signing. Han ville være en fantastisk repræsentant for Barca hvis han blev anfører efter Iniesta.

Selvom jeg er vild med Pique, så tror jeg Cesc ku blive en endnu bedre fremtidig anfører, Cesc har bare en modenhed i sine udtalelse som er sjældent set.

Man vidste ikke hvor meget man ønskede han kom tilbage før han endelig kom. Sikke en trup vi har. Bravo og må vi være heldige mht skader i denne sæson!

P.s.
Hvor cool er det at man kan give hinanden thumbs up på forum nu!

[DonIniesta]

Jeg synes ikke det er spor overraskende, at Cesc viser sig fra sin gode side allerede nu. Manden har laenge vaeret verdensklasse og det har ikke vaeret nogen hemmelighed, at han de seneste par saesoner kun havde to overmaend paa midtbanen og det er naturligvis Don Iniesta og Xavi.

Mandens statistikker taler hvert fald for sig selv. Mener lavede over 150 assists og 60 maal i 300 kampe. Det er ret vildt, isaer med tanke paa de skadesperiode han i tide og utide rendte ind i.

Rent spillemaessigt, kulturmaessigt (sprog, kendskab til klubben og dens aand), paa det personlige plan (kender naesten alle FCB spillere) vil der heller ikke vaere problemer.

Og alt dette for soelle 29 mio. euro plus en evt. bonus paa 5 mio. euro. Det er ret vildt, for den bedste midtbanespiller naestefter Don Iniesta og Xavi, som ovenikoebet lige er fyldt 24 aar.

For ikke at snakke om de taktiske muligheder han giver holdet, dynamitten han tilbyder og ikke mindst en ellers ikke saa udpraegt egenskab paa holdet, nemlig det meget direkte og hurtige pasningsspil foruden hans maalfarlighed, som vi til tider kan savne fra midtbanen, selvom Keita altid er garant for 6-8 maal pr. saeson, Xavi ligesaa, samt Don Iniesta endelig har faaet justeret sigtekornet.

[rummenigge]

Cesc VS Napoli:

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Det eneste punkt hvor Cesc ikke er helt på højde med Iniesta og Xavi, er nok boldsikkerheden. Selvom han her også er überklasse så er Xavi og Iniesta (og Messi) lige et niveau højere. Det er nærmest umuligt at få bolden fra dem, de tre små kæmper er uhyggelige her.

Tilgengæld er Cesc blik for spilletog de dybe afleveringer helt på højde med samtidig med at hans løb ind i feltet og målfarlighed overgår alle midtbanespillerne hos Barca (måske Keita er en tæt to'er).

Det giver grobund for at Cesc om et par år er den bedste midtbanespiller i verden. Lad os håbe Thiago, Ini og Xavi på det tidspunkt er tætte to'ere

[kklaus]

Hva' så - var det 11 dage i Barca og 2 pokaler.. og tilsvarende 8 år i Arsenal og 2 pokaler :)

Nå, damn, hvor er Cesc nice!


Ærlig talt, så kan jeg stadig ikke lide den nye hjemmebanetrøje. Det er kun på Cesc den ser nice ud (det lyder måske mærkeligt, men det er sådan jeg har det.. men okay, jeg har også drukket mange øl)

[Brombi]

jeg har et man crush på fabregas.. sorry pique..

[rummenigge]

jeg har et man crush på fabregas.. sorry pique..

Hahaha...me too maaaaaaaayn!

Den trøje bliver jeg heller ikke gode venner med. Nogen der ved om man stadig kan købe de gamle 1. trøjer?