Cesc Fabregas just admitted he wants to bring Arsenal's culture to Como

Como manager Cesc Fabregas admits that he is trying to get some of the culture of the 'project' at Arsenal to his current club, he said after Como's match against Arsenal on Wednesday.

The match ended in a draw, after which Arsenal won on penalties in a very exciting encounter, with both teams missing a few quality players.

However, the onus was obviously on the fitness of all these players and trying to see them play together for both teams, and everyone succeeded in that regard.

Fabregas, who used to play for Arsenal for quite some time back in the day, was asked about how the club has supported Mikel Arteta and stuck with him despite some bad runs initially in his tenure, and how that is missing in football.

He also spoke about the way it inspires him and how he takes some of that with him to Como.

He said: "Congratulations to the club in general, starting from seven or eight years ago when they first started with this project.

"Because what you watch and see in football every day, what Arsenal did, especially in the difficult moments, it doesn’t exist. It doesn’t exist. We lack this in football today. Every day you see: 'Okay, lose three games, change the coach.'

"I’m very lucky that I am in a project, of course at a much lower level, lower everything in terms of history and everything. But we’re trying to look a little bit at the stability that Arsenal had, at the values, at the culture that they are bringing."

Cesc Fabregas is spot on with his views on Arsenal's brilliant project

Fabregas has said a lot of things in the past. I don't really think there is anything truer than this.

Football is evolving in this day and age, and a lot of it is against what fans want. Some teams have very little patience with their manager. They want success immediately, and as soon as they see a bad run of form, the pressure goes to the manager and he's gone soon after.

Arsenal stuck with Arteta through the thick and thin. Everyone saw the same project, which was the most important thing, and now it's paying dividends. That's the kind of footballing philosophy that makes fans believe in their clubs again.

Como, for example, are doing a very similar thing, coming all the way up from Serie B to play in Serie A. They finished mid-table the season before the last one, and then saw even more progression as they qualified for the Champions League last season.

Now, because of the Champions League, things might take a U-turn for Como in some games, but what Fabregas and Como must be taking away from this entire Arsenal project is that those things happen.

As long as long-term goals are being dealt with in a few years and the manager is given enough faith to keep the progression going, that's what matters for projects like what Arsenal have had, and what Como have now.

Whatever Fabregas said about that speaks volumes on how football is changing, and despite that, Arsenal are sticking with what works.

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