Rooney one of the best? What about Cesc?

Ok, we keep hearing "Wayne Rooney is in the top 3 in the world", which on current form I wouldn't disagree, but what I've never heard is that Cesc is, At the age of 22 Fabregas is one of the best midfielders in world football, with 17 goals and 19 assists to his name this season, and surely more to come from now until the end of the season, Shouldn't he be considered one of the best in the world?

Yes, Rooney has been more consistent in the goal scoring department, but so he should as he is a forward. Rooney currently with 33 goals to his name this season has kept Manchester United in the title race, as they sit first 1 point ahead of Chelsea and 2 of Arsenal, but what would happen if you took Rooney out of the United team? They certianly wouldn't be top of the table, as fellow strike partner Dimitar Berbatov has struggled to find the back of the net this season.

Fabregas, who has been involved in 36 of the 73 goals scored by Arsenal, isn't as much missed when hes been out of action this season, as seen when we played Porto at home, and beat them comprehensively 5-0 (6-2 agg). The Arsenal captain seems not to get the amount of praise from the footballing world as the likes of Wayne Rooney gets, is this because Rooney has single handly kept United in the title race, and that Cesc hasn't had do to the same?

I somewhat believe we have the best midfielder in world football (on current form), the likes of Xavi and Iniesta get all the praise, but the fact is, whenever Fabregas plays for Spain or Arsenal, hes far more consistent than both averging a goal or an assist a game.

Is it about time our Captain got the praise he deserves and is considered one of the best in the world?

Give me your opinions on the matter.

Birmingham City v Arsenal Preview

This weekend we play Birmingham at St Andrews, one of the harder places to go in the Premier League this season.

Alex Mcleish's men have been the suprise package this season, as they sit 7 points off a Europa League place in 9th, this is mainly down to their terrific home record this season, consisting of draws with Manchester City, Chelsea and Manchester United, so quite clearly this won't be a stroll in the park for Wenger and Co, and I don't think they will think that either.

Doubt

There is a doubt for Nicklas Bendtner for this game, after he twisted his ankle against West Ham last weekend, therefore they're might be a starting place for Eduardo. It'll be the first time Arsenal have been back at St Andrews since that horrific injury to Eduardo, that all but ended Arsenal's title challenge in the 07/08 season.

If the Croatian does start, let's hope he can put the demons behind him from that fateful day, and get back to his normal self.

Suspension

Thomas Vermaelen is suspended for this game after his dubious red card against West Ham when he supposedly brought down Franco (Which clearly didn't happen) and the FA rejected our appeal on Tuesday afternoon.

Team Prediction

Almunia
Sagna Campbell Song Clichy
Fabregas Denilson Diaby
Walcott Eduardo Rosicky

Sub: Fabianski, Eboue, Arshavin, Silvestre, Eastmond, Nasri, Bendtner (If not fully fit)

Click Here for news on Bendtner's injury.

Barcelona Watch.

For the upcoming mouth watering clash with Arsenal and Barcelona, We'll be keeping an eye on them to see how well/poor their playing in La Liga.

Pep Guardiola's men beat Osasuna 2-0 at the Camp Nou on Wednesday evening, the goals coming from Ibrahimovich and Bojan.

In the first half, Barcelona were very poor, subject to that Pep Guardiola got stuck into his players at half-time for the dismal performance, and they were 5 minutes late out of the dressing room, he then took Thierry Henry off for Pedro at halftime to try change the game, and it worked.

On 72 minutes Ibrahimovic released the pressure when he stroked home a cross from Maxwell after good work and one of the best moves of the game between the Brazilian and Iniesta. Barca weren’t going to settle for just the one goal and as they pushed for the second the game became an end to end affair, with neither team in complete control until Iniesta dribbled his way in from the wing and set up Bojan to make it two and confirm a valuable and hard won three points.

Their defence certainly wasn't the best, Osasuna had some really good chances to score themselves due to a few lapses in defence from Barcelona trying to play a very high line, something Wenger and Co will look to exploit when they visit the Emirates on the 31st of March.

Loic Remy wants Arsenal move.

OGC Nice’s centre forward Loic Remy has once again been linked with a move to Arsenal after reiterating his desire to join Arsenal.

The Ex-Lyon man, who has been subject from bids from his ex-club Lyon, says he'd rather join Arsenal than Olympique Lyonnais, even though reportedly Arsenal have a pre-contract agreement with Bordeaux striker Marouane Chamakh.

“My preference would be Arsenal over Lyon. I won’t hide it. They are a young team with a developing game and with ambitions. I really take pleasure in watching them play. It is an ideal place to continue to progress. You never know in football what will happen. But Arsenal are a club that make me feel desire.”

Remy has been dubbed the new Thierry Henry, at 23 the tall, powerful and speedy forward has been watched by many of Europes top clubs ever since he was at Lyon, but his prefered destintion would be Arsenal, due to us being a young and upcoming team, who play football in the right way.

So whats your thoughts on a possible move for Remy?