Fabregas is a true leader

Fabregas is a true leader

I am fed up with people saying that Arsenal lack leaders because this is implying that Fabregas is not a good captain.

I do not know if people get blinded when players are not in the side or whether they get influenced by mischief makers like talkSport or the Telegraph but whenever I have seen Fabregas play he has been nothing but an inspirational leader.

He is the best player on the pitch and he is covering the whole pitch by helping in defence and leading the attacks.

He has sometimes played injured just to get us through games.

He is in many ways the perfect captain as he also let other players be natural on the pitch.

None of that Gallas-style of leadership, you know the one that stares at his team-mates, do not talk to his colleagues or make a one-man protest after a defeat.

Getting rid of Gallas was one of the best decisions of Arsenal in recent years. I say Arsenal because I know Wenger was trying to keep him but the Board forced the issue (possibly for the first time in the Wenger era)  by offering him a 50% cut on his salary.

Hill-Wood even wished him “good luck” in May while Wenger and Gallas were still in talks.

Gallas was a great defender don´t get me wrong. He is still better than Koscielny or Djourou (even though both of them will get better next season). He has always been better than Squillaci.

But he created the malaise that we had in the club and awarding the captaincy to him instead of Toure or Gilberto remains in my opinion the biggest mistake of the Wenger era.

During his reign, Adebayor would not talk to Bendtner, van Persie not to Adebayor and Monsieur Captain himself will not talk to Toure, Bendnter and Nasri.

Fabregas´captaincy has changed all that. Nasri is happier and is now a world-class player. Other seniors like van Persie and Song look up to him.

There was disappointment in the Camp Nou but remember that he was never fit to play that game.

When he is fit though, he has saved us many times (even coming from the bench sometimes). The lack of leadership talk is just lazy journalism as I have always seen determination and motivation from Cesc Fabregas.