No, actually, I've been thinking about this for a while, ever since I found out that Fabergas was the captain. to me, how in the hell do you give the armband to a KID who DIDN"T EVEN PLAY IN THE LAST WORLD CUP and IMHO is not set out to be a leader of one of the most popular and most successful soccer clubs of the past 20 years.
Have you even thought about that despite only being a young 22 as you claim, Fabregas has been with the gunners for quite a few years and he's one of the elder members on the team?? The other day when they faced Boro' in EPL, the average age of the midfield was 19. ONLY 19!! Fabregas was the eldest person in the midfield. Now, as a hypothetical to look for another captain, look who was with him in the line-up in the mid-field against Man U....Walcott (a pup himself), Nasri (just bought) & Diaby. Silvestre is just bought, Song's still trying to find his fulltime place in the backline, then look at the leftover choices you've got for captain then. Toure would be the best of that lot as he's got that experience behind him, or maybe Clichy.
For that same reasoning, I could say that Rio Ferdinand doesn't deserve the captaincy at Man United because of his behaviour off the field at certain times in the past and could pick in my opinion, more deserving people (such as Ryan Giggs for example) but then again that's me being nitpicky to Rio.
Like I said, This is a very young team. reminds me a lot of the Leeds United team of a few years back that went to the semifinals of the Champions League before losing to the eventual champions Valencia.
Only dif is, The owners of the team went bankrupt the very next season and have never really recovered (unlike Lazio, who had a similar thing that happened to them but was saved by the implentation of a strict "Salary Cap" rule that saved them and eventually led them to go back to the Champions League). I don't see Arsenal's owners doing that any time soon.
They won't. Unlike most of the other clubs, Arsenal has done more youth development than them and has kept their purchase prices relatively low, and if Arsene sells them, he's usually making a profit. Like Dave A said though, we should've sold Henry a year earlier to make double what we already had but Wenger tried everything to keep him and Henry still left.
EDIT: Besides, I wasn't nearly as angry about Henry as I was about Reyes, Gilberto Silva, and Gallas/Fabergas.
Reyes never really got off the ground at Arsenal. Silva was another I err'ed about but they were better off selling him considering the amount of midfield development they're doing (remember, avg. age 19-20-21 most matches) setting themselves up for good performances for the next 10 years with the average age of the team.
The one person I will say that Wenger stuffed up with by selling was Alexandr Hleb. He was an intrical piece to Arsenal's attacking and midfield dynamics and since being sold, Arsenal hasn't had that constant venom when it comes to set-up play. Fabregas will come good once he gets that rust out from being injured for so long but Hleb was like the other fist in a 1-2 midfield combo.
Nasri will be up there when he does similar things like he did when he first arrived at the gunners, but yesterday he looked absolutely quiet and for him to be stuck at right back during most of the first half was a case of "what the hell?!".
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But even so, there was little they could do against the sheer class of Barcelona... Xavi was outstanding all night, and Messi was just sublime. Atleast it was a great game to watch, and credit to Man U for making a game of it 👍
