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With the Cesc Fabregas will-he-won’t-he saga rumbling on and on, another Barcelona player has come out publicly to question another Spaniard’s decision to stay at their current English club. Nou Camp new boy David Villa has been recently quoted expressing his surprise that his international strike partner Fernando Torres has not joined Chelsea this summer.
Villa’s comments are somewhat indicative of a lack of respect that is being displayed by Spanish clubs towards some clubs in the Premier League as he questions the ability of one of our leading clubs to challenge for silverware. Granted, Liverpool had a disappointing last season but they remain the most successful club in English football and will look to improve this season under Roy Hodgson’s leadership.
Villa’s quotes indicate that he believes that a player’s worth is only dictated by personal honours and club titles. The Spanish are used to winning things on the football field; their Wold Cup and European Championship trophies are testament to that. Spanish success has instilled a quantative rather than qualitative yardstick by which a player’s value is measured. While Torres hasn’t won any domestic honours at Liverpool, the Liverpool fans simply adore El Niño and a lack of trophies will not change that fact.
The attempt to unsettle Spanish players in the Premier League is nothing new with Villa’s new club Barcelona the chief exponents of this unsavoury craft. This is shown best in their relentless pursuit of Arsenal’s Cesc Fabregas.
The Catalan club have long been determined to bring Fabregas back to the Nou Camp and have pulled out all of the stops this summer in a despicable attempt to sway the Arsenal captain into leaving the Emirates.
First there were the many utterances from Barcelona players attempting to unsettle Fabregas. Xavi told Spanish newspaper El Mundo Deportivo that Cesc has “Barcelona in his DNA” and The Daily Express that Arsenal only has Fabregas “on loan”. Other Barcelona players have chipped in with their opinions, with Carles Puyol, Andres Iniesta and Gerard Pique particularly vocal in their wish for Fabregas to join them at the Camp Nou.
Then there was the extremely unsubtle forcing of the Barcelona shirt over Fabregas’ head by Reina, Pique and Puyol at Spain’s World Cup homecoming celebration. Whilst done in jest, the use of public celebration as a means of tapping up is distasteful to say the least.
The public chase of Cesc Fabregas is something that is important to Barcelona due to the political overtones that are present at the club. The signing of Cesc Fabregas to Barcelona would prove to be a major coup for new club president Sandro Rosell as he attempts to curry favour with those supporters that elected him.
Barcelona have exercised a blatant lack of discretion and subtlety in unsettling both Cesc Fabregas and Fernando Torres. Their bullying and belittling of Premier League clubs is something that football’s governing bodies should seriously look into otherwise this problem will only get worse and worse.
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