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EXCLUSIVE<\/strong> Cesc Fabregas<\/a> has already checked out of the Emirates and it could be the right time for him to move to Barcelona<\/a>, according to Arsenal<\/a> legend Lee Dixon.<\/p>\n The former England right-back, who played more than 500 times for the Gunners, believes the Spaniard’s head has been turned by rumours of a move back to Catalunya and the pressure of being club captain is too much for him.<\/p>\n “I think maybe Fabregas’ head is not there anymore at Arsenal,” he told Goal.com<\/strong>. “I think the captaincy was given to him for a reason – not the right reason – I don’t think he’s a good captain. Maybe this summer might be the summer that he leaves.”<\/p>\n Dixon added: “For me a captain is a natural leader – it’s a state of mind that they are in a position when things aren’t going well for them to be able to step out and actually lift other people; I don’t see Fabregas doing that. He’s said himself he finds that side of things very difficult and he’s not someone if he’s not playing particularly well that is going to be going round tapping people on the back going ‘come on I’m there for you if you need me’. That is not the type of captain he is and for me that is the wrong type of captain. I don’t think Arsenal have got a natural captain.”<\/p>\n Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger could also lose Fabregas’ midfield team-mate Samir Nasri, who stepped into the Spaniard’s shoes when he was injured this season and excelled. But the Frenchman is yet to agree a new deal and could leave the Emirates for free next summer but Wenger has claimed he will do everything he can to keep the midfield star.<\/p>\n “Samir Nasri has come into his own last season with Fabregas having his injuries and not playing as much; he found a little space to come in and play more centrally and his development improved because of that,” Dixon added. “He had a great first two thirds of the season; he would be a massive blow if he goes. On last year’s form you would say that Nasri would be a bigger loss than Fabregas.”<\/p>\n Earlier this month former Gunners ace Thierry Henry urged the club and supporters to stick by Wenger<\/a> despite six trophy-less seasons in an exclusive interview with Goal.com<\/strong>, and Dixon agrees.<\/p>\n “I completely agree with Henry.” he said. “I think Wenger needs to look at the team and he needs to maybe change a little bit his philosophy. I just look at that team now and I think if I was in that team I’d be going mad with certain aspects of it. We all love watching them when they have got the ball, there’s no better team in the Premier League than that, but at times there’s a lack of cutting edge; when they’ve had 20 passes they seem to want 21 and not put the ball in the net.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Arrgh! |<\/strong> Dixon – like Wenger – has been frustrated watching Arsenal this term<\/span><\/p>\n There was, though, one bright spark during another disappointing season in the shape of Jack Wilshere. The Arsenal midfielder picked up the PFA Young Player of the Year and progressed from the England Under-21s to the full squad. The 19-year-old was involved in a club versus country row ahead of this summer’s Under-21 European Championships with Wenger claiming his youngster has already played enough games, but Dixon believes Wilshere should not have been in Stuart Pearce’s squad anyway.<\/p>\n “I don’t believe that once you make your progression from the Under-21s to the senior level that you should be playing in the Under-21s,” he said. “He’s made that transition into the first-team and he should stay there. Yeah it’s great if the Under-21s win the tournament but I still think they can do very well without Jack Wilshere and he can go on and progress his full England career.<\/p>\n “He’s got that doggedness about him, that will to win. That character that Jack possesses is something that needs to rub off on a few of the others.”<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n “Jack has got that doggedness about him. It needs to rub off on a few others”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \nDixon made the right-back spot his own at Arsenal after 14 years with the club, so knows a thing or two about playing that position, and had high praise for current incumbent Bacary Sagna, who was selected in the PFA Team of the Year this season.<\/p>\n “I do like him; he’s settled into the team and come in off the back of some Arsenal legends like Oleg Luzhny and Pal Lydersen – he had some big boots to fill! I think he’s settled into the position very well. He has still got lots of things to learn, the position has changed over the years even since I stopped playing. He’s possibly the best in the Premier League.”<\/p>\n Dixon is now putting his time and money behind a new online football game I AM PLAYR<\/em> that puts you in the boots of a young hopeful and lets you experience the pitfalls on and off the pitch. There are choices in the game that were exactly what the 47-year-old had to face during his playing days.<\/p>\n “I thought it was a really brilliant idea and it could go really big,” he said. “It’s quite intriguing from that point of view with me because I’ve actually been there and to be honest with you been on some celebrations after games where there are choices to make. Certainly my experience of playing football with Tony Adams, who is a recovering alcoholic now, on some nights he would definitely go left and I would definitely go right.<\/p>\n “I can remember reading his book and thinking that I remember being out with him on that night and then thinking ‘there’s another 10 pages of the chapter to go and I can remember I went home then’ and you turn the pages and there’s another whole new world opens up of where Tony went and the things he got up to.”<\/p>\n Lee Dixon is a brand ambassador and an investor in the first-ever point of view football game I AM PLAYR (www.iamplayr.com<\/a>) from games developers We R Interactive<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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“But the biggest problem is the team mentality when they haven’t got the ball and that needs experienced players in there and it needs not just one it needs two or three – that goes from the pitch on to the training pitch into the dressing room.”<\/p>\n\n\n
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