Two days ago, my favourite team Arsenal(known for their attractive brand of football) beat Juventus 2-0 in the Champs League. What's the big deal u all may ask? It's just a soccer match. It's more than that. You see people were ridiculing Arsene Wenger, Arsenal football manager for selling Patrick Viera to Juventus(he played against them in the match) because Viera was seen as a massive influence and the critics felt that Arsene just dug a hole for Arsenal.
Arsenal performance in the Primier League was pathetic and people wondered if Arsene Wenger was right in selling Viera as he was the main driving force for Arsenal for the past nine years. However, the champs league match against Juve highlighted something. Mr Wenger still has the eye for vision and he was courageous enough to sell Viera and place his trust on the young Fabregas who repaid his faith by putting in outstanding performances and even scoring a goal in the Juventus match. I would say that credit has to go to Wenger.
Nobody will have the same courage as Wenger to sell an influential player to another team and trust a young but promising player. People in his shoes would have listened to the critics and would have stuck with Viera(whose heart was not Arsenal in his final year with the Gunners). Wenger stuck by his decision and took stick and endured criticism and even his own supporters and players doubted his decision. Now, people are seeing the fruits of his hard decision. That's what i call a courageous man-someone who sticks to his decision regardless of what other people say knowing that their decision is not popular but it is necessary and right.
Crtics might say that it's still early as Fabregas is still young and and needs to prove himself in the coming months and seasons but I'm sure he will mature into a better player and even become a world-class midfielder under Wenger.Only time will tell.
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