{"id":24458,"date":"2024-03-29T08:01:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T08:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-very-intelligent-boy-complete-package-cesc-fabregas-hails-arsenal-star\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T08:01:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T08:01:18","slug":"epl-very-intelligent-boy-complete-package-cesc-fabregas-hails-arsenal-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-very-intelligent-boy-complete-package-cesc-fabregas-hails-arsenal-star\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: \u2018Very intelligent boy, complete package\u2019 \u2013 Cesc Fabregas hails Arsenal star"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Arsenal captain, Cesc Fabregas has heaped praises on the Gunners\u2019 midfielder, Declan Rice ahead of their Premier League clash with Manchester City at Etihad on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Fabregas described Rice as a \u2018very intelligent boy and a complete package\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the Planet Premier League podcast, the former Barcelona and Chelsea midfielder said the England international is a \u2018very big plus\u2019 for Mikel Arteta\u2019s side following his big-money move from West Ham last summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is brought dynamism, physicality, quality, intelligence, maturity. He is the complete package in midfield, in my opinion,\u201d Fabregas said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe can play also as a double-pivot, he can play by himself, he can play higher up as a No.8 and I think he looks like a very intelligent boy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe knows his limitations as well so I feel safe. I see him play and I\u2019m like: \u201cI don\u2019t think this boy will make a mistake in this game [Man City vs Arsenal].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard added, \u201cI think Arsenal, Arsenal fans and Mikel, when they have Declan in there they feel safe. That is a very big plus for the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EPL: \u2018Very intelligent boy, complete package\u2019 \u2013 Cesc Fabregas hails Arsenal star<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Arsenal captain, Cesc Fabregas has heaped praises on the Gunners\u2019 midfielder, Declan Rice ahead of their Premier League clash&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4130,12638,194,15,160],"tags":[237,12639,156,5348,180,201],"class_list":["post-24458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal","category-cesc-fabregas","category-epl","category-news","category-sport","tag-arsenal","tag-cesc","tag-epl","tag-fabregas","tag-news","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}