Your vote: Arsenal Addicts want Cesc as skipper
Monday, July 28, 2008 at 2:15PM
GM in Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, Cesc Fabregas, Emmanuel Adebayor, Gael Clichy, Gunners, Kolo Toure, William Gallas

In terms of medal winners, Cesc Fabregas is the most successful player in the Arsenal squad, having just collected his winner's medal for helping Spain to their Euro 2008 triumph.

Now before you go barking at me that Kolo Toure has a Premier League winner's medal, as well as two FA Cup winners medals, I agree that the Ivorian's haul is greater than that of Cesc (who also has an FA Cup victory to boast about) but my point is that Fabregas's collection is more impressive and of all of his current club compatriots, he is the only player to have a recent success to talk about.

So that could be one of the many reasons that you Addicts have voted Fab 4 tops in our poll of who should take over the skipper's armband for the Arsenal next season.

Cesc amassed an impressive 45% in our poll, with Kolo coming in second place with a little under 37%.

Current captain William Gallas deserves to be stripped of the honour, according to those who voted, with the French 30-year-old gaining only a 12% vote of confidence.

And our other candidates - Gael Clichy and Emmanuel Adebayor - notched just 6% between them, although the latter was obviously the booby prize winner with just 1% of you choosing him as your man for on-field leader.

The Gunners play their first serious pre-season game on Wednesday when they face Jens Lehmann's Stuttgart and I suspect that if Arsene Wenger is going to make a captaincy change we'll know about it when that game kicks off.

Whether he'll pay attention to our Arsenal Addict poll, I've no idea. But if you're reading this Arsene, click here to see our full poll results and to hear what us Gooners are thinking ahead of the new season.

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