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#3 Cesc Fabregas
There’s probably an argument to be made that no other Arsenal player came around at quite so much the wrong time as Cesc Fabregas.
The Spanish midfielder – who became renowned for his range of passing, creativity and ability to find teammates with the ball – joined the Gunners from his boyhood club of Barcelona in September 2003. But despite Arsenal famously winning the 2003-04 Premier League title – going unbeaten in the process – Fabregas didn’t receive a winner’s medal as he didn’t play a single league game.
2004-05 saw him win the FA Cup with the Gunners, but he hadn’t really established himself as a first team regular at that point. By the time he did, Arsenal had fallen behind not just their old rivals Manchester United, but Chelsea too.
Fabregas spent 8 seasons at the club, becoming captain in the process – but his only trophy with them was that solitary FA Cup.
In the summer of 2011 the Spaniard made the move back to his boyhood club, signing with Barcelona for a fee of €29m. One season later, he picked up his first league title at the Nou Camp, making 32 appearances and scoring 11 goals in the process.
The Spaniard left Barca in the summer of 2014, but to make things worse for Arsenal fans, his move back to England saw him head to Chelsea rather than back to the Emirates. At Stamford Bridge he would win a further four trophies, including two Premier League titles, finally finding the success he could never achieve with the Gunners.
