Cesc Fàbregas is very clear when he's asked about which Real Madrid players he would sign for Barcelona. Some weeks ago, Sandro Rosell revealed that "there is a Real Madrid player that I greatly admire, but I'm not saying who because all hell would break loose". A few days ago it was Pedro who said "I would sign Sergio Ramos". This time Cesc gave his honest opinion.

The Barcelona midfielder chose Özil: "I admire him a lot. I can relate to him because he plays in that roaming attacking midfield role that I played in at Arsenal and I think we would play well together. I can relate to him, we're very similar"


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Mesut has returned to Real Madrid with profound thoughts rattling around between his crinkly ears:


( There's an unlikely bromance in here, actually ('cause Sami has options)... )

It was a game featuring two lovely goals from our lovely boy, a bunch of very handsome lads in green, a frozen pitch, a more than usually concerned Papa-José, and three come-backs.




And as always, this community provides the best perspective, thanks to the genius of our resident gif artist - andriy_7

This game was special for our modern-day crinkly-eared hero. He scored twice. He was MASSIVELY FEATURED on the sporting pages of every single paper the next day (that link will take you to this community's screen captures of the newspapers a day later). So this spam will be split into two halves. Also, Andriy sent too many gifs and beautiful pictures for the Internets to handle :p

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