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He told Barca TV<\/strong>: “The easiest thing would have been to stay at Arsenal<\/strong>. I’m the captain, playing every game. We are always in the Champions League<\/strong>, always fighting for titles. For all that, and the tough competition here, perhaps now might be the worst time to return to Barca<\/strong>. It’s going to be really tough to make the starting XI, but I needed a new challenge in my life.”<\/p>\n

He added: “I thought I’d stagnated a bit, and needed a change of scenery. I needed a special motivation to bring the best out of myself.”<\/p>\n

“I think that Xavi<\/strong> still has some years left in him! He does things you wouldn’t believe!”<\/p>\n

“I haven’t come to retire Xavi<\/strong>. I came here to play with Xavi<\/strong>, to compete with Xavi, and to win with Xavi<\/strong>. What I’m saying about Xavi<\/strong> also goes for Andres and Thiago. I think altogether we make a very good group. I know what we’ll do. With the great group we are, we’ll do great things together.”<\/p>\n

“The last months I’ve been under a lot of pressure,” he admitted. “Mentally it’s really tiring, but it finally happened and I’m very happy to be back at Barca<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

“It is partly my fault that it has been so complicated, for having left. Not in my wildest dreams had I imagined that one day I would play for the Barca<\/strong> first team. Not as a child, nor playing with Arsenal <\/strong>had I thought I’d live a day like Monday.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He told Barca TV: “The easiest thing would have been to stay at Arsenal. I’m the captain, playing every game. We are always in the Champions League, always fighting for titles. For all that, and the tough competition here, perhaps now might be the worst time to return to Barca. It’s going to be really … Continue reading “Fabregas “I needed fresh challenge””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3873,3872],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barca","category-gossip","category-transfer-news"],"yoast_head":"Fabregas "I needed fresh challenge"<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\""I thought I'd stagnated a bit, and needed a change of scenery. 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