article_snippet.sent: Arsene Wenger Arsene Wenger speaks to a young Fabregas after snatching Cesc Fabregas' away from Barcelona in 2004 .
article_snippet.sent: It has been suggested they have not spoken since Cesc Fabregas' made the summer move that got so many backs up.
article_snippet.sent: There is nothing terribly unusual in that except they used to be so close, to the extent that Arsene Wenger continued to text Cesc Fabregas' on birthdays and career milestones while Arsene Wenger was at Barcelona.
article_snippet.sent: Arsene Wenger hasn’t spoken to me since I came back,’ Cesc Fabregas' was quoted as saying in September.
article_snippet.sent: Except there is still believed to be only silence from the man Arsene Wenger once called Arsene Wenger
article_snippet.sent: Until now Arsene Wenger had followed a largely clean script.
article_snippet.sent: Arsene Wenger was the boy who attended Arsene Wenger first Barca match as a nine-month-old baby with Arsene Wenger grandfather.
article_snippet.sent: The story goes that Arsene Wenger was playing for Mataro, 35km north of Barcelona.
article_snippet.sent: The midfielder's relationship with mentor Wenger became strained after mentor Wenger left Arsenal in 2011 .
article_snippet.sent: By that point, it would be hard to blame the rationale in wanting a move to Guardiola’s Barcelona, but staff at Arsenal were disappointed in how the switch was pushed through.
article_snippet.sent: The suggestion is that Wenger under-performed at Barca, which in part is the fault of the club itself.
article_snippet.sent: Upon leaving last summer, the club itself, oddly, flagged up in an official statement that Wenger tends to flag in the second half of seasons.
article_snippet.sent: Wenger gave the impression that there is more to know about the circumstances behind the move to Chelsea, saying on Thursday:
article_snippet.sent: Fabregas’s still keeps in touch with Arsenal legend Henry, with the pair attending a NBA game in London .
article_snippet.sent: Wenger said in a statement last summer that Arsenal ‘decided’ not to trigger an option they held to re-sign Wenger.
article_snippet.sent: Wenger has previously claimed that by the time Wenger knew Fabregas’s was available a deal with Chelsea was almost done.
highlights_snippet.sent: His relationship with Arsene Wenger has deteriorated since His left in 2011 .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Jose Mourinho deep down admires what Arsene Wenger has established .
  