Fabregas regrets Arsenal´s revolving door

Cesc Fabregas has blamed instability at Arsenal for the team’s failure to achieve more success during his time in north London.

The only trophy Fabregas lifted with Arsenal came in 2005, when they beat Manchester United in the final of the FA Cup.

The Spain midfielder conceded United, along with Chelsea, had the edge over Arsene Wenger’s team thanks to their spine of key players remaining largely unchanged.

“I’ll always have that thorn in my side, that sadness,” Fabregas told FourFourTwo.

“I wish I had gone having won something, at least to leave with a title.”

“We never had a team like Manchester United or Chelsea, who have always had a base of seven or eight players together for years.”

“We were always changing; one would come in, another would go, another wants to leave … in the end, it makes a difference.”

Fabegas, 24, said he knew the time had to come to move on from the club he joined as a 16-year-old in 2003.

“I thought it was the right moment,” he said.

“I’d given everything for Arsenal.”

“I played with a broken leg, I played when my grandfather died. I gave everything but you reach a moment when you say: ‘I can’t give any more’.”

Fabregas also dismissed suggestions that he took the easy way out by leaving Arsenal for a star-studded Barcelona team.

“I think I took the hardest option,” he says.

“I will have to work twice as hard to win a place as I did in London.”

“I’m not guaranteed a starting position. I’m competing with the best central midfielders in the world, some of the best in history.”