Denilson: Cesc doesn’t lead us

By Charlie Wyett

Arsenal star Denilson has rocked the club by insisting Cesc Fabregas is not a good captain. Brazilian Denilson, preparing for tonight's FA Cup replay at Leeds, said: "Fabregas is the captain but he is not a leader. "It's a personality thing and a leader can be young. It's something they are born with. We are lacking leadership and we need leadership to go forward. There isn't a leader. I don't see one player as a leader. At Arsenal it's more of a collective team at the moment, everyone is talking - but a leader is always important for a team."

Midfielder Denilson, 22, also had strong views on Arsenal's goalkeeping situation. Wojciech Szczesny is set to start tonight in place of the injured Lukasz Fabianski, yet Denilson believes neither is the club's No 1 stopper. He said: "The best keeper at Arsenal is Manuel Almunia."

But Denilson gave his full backing to manager Arsene Wenger. The Brazilian added: "His work is amazing and I admire all he has done giving opportunities to young players."

He's just hitting back at Cesc......i've never been a fan of denilson, he doesn't really add any value to the team. I can't understand why Wenger insists on playing him because we always end up losing whenever he starts a match.

Now that we the pensioners have started having our voices back; I found the following copy and paste quite insightful on the reason we are 4th instead of 1st:

Sometimes, in the premier league, you need to approach the matches like a gladiator in an amphitheatre. You got to fight it out. You gotta be ready for ugly things...

The title winning teams are always the most consistent. In order to maintain this consistency, at least in the premier league, your team has to be versatile. I think we have forgotten this art of being versatile. Seasons ago, Chelsea team would change its formation 3 or 4 times in the same match, tactics rapidly changing based on match situations including injuries to opponent players, have players being played out of position, have players dropped for performance, have players’ desires and workrate questioned openly and so on. Now, we’ve become a bit too cozy. We don’t change our formation, we don’t change our tactics, we don’t drop players and we lose confidence and we expect ourselves to come out of this ‘bad moment’. Just how?

Good question just how?

Jus Blazin...you can't compare Fabianski (who's has been on good form of late) and Sczezsny with pensioners like Buffon, VDS...our keepers are young inexperienced players. At 23 yrs, i believe Cesc is doing a great job as captain. Who said leaders have to be defenders or keepers and btw at 20 most of the players you've mentioned were nowhere. I think Almunia (who is on his way out) is the only player above 30. How many goals have been conceded between VDS, CECH, FABIANSKI this season?

On the keepers, inexperience wont win you the title. Get experienced keepers like Shay Given. Your keepers cannot also be compared to their agemates Hart, De Gea, etc.