Cesc Fabregas explains why he’s in no rush to go away Como, even when he’d prefer to work within the Premier League ‘in 12, 15 years,’ as a result of he has management. ‘I take all of the soccer choices, I designed the gymnasium.’
The tactician has taken Como from Serie B to the highest flight, the Coppa Italia semi-final and now difficult for a Champions League qualifying place within the area of three years.
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It has attracted a lot consideration that there have been reviews he had been approached by and , two of his former golf equipment as a participant, however insists .
Fabregas desirous to see Como develop
COMO, ITALY – APRIL 12: coach Cesc Fabregas and coach Cristian Chivu look on in the course of the Serie A match between Como 1907 and FC Internazionale at Giuseppe Sinigaglia Stadium on April 12, 2026 in Como, Italy. (Picture by Marco Luzzani/Getty Photographs)
“The Premier League is one of the best league on the earth,”
“I’ve at all times been very, very clear about it. I felt it as a participant, I really feel it as a coach, as a fan. However [Jose] Mourinho informed me someday once I was at Chelsea ‘I nonetheless have 30 years to work’. So I may very well be right here for 10 years, and you may nonetheless go to the Premier League in 12, 15 years.
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“Soccer is so unpredictable, it modifications in a single second. At some point, you’re the finest. The day after, you’re the worst. So let’s benefit from the second. I prefer to benefit from the second. It’s lovely what we live right here. Let’s see what the long run holds.”
Seeing the pace at which some golf equipment undergo managers, he has much more purpose to stay it out with Como, the place he represents way over only a coach.
When he joined as a participant in 2022, the Spaniard additionally invested as a minority shareholder, and has been given the keys to the membership by billionaire house owners the Hartono household.
COMO, ITALY – MARCH 03: Como 1907 coach Cesc Fabregas points directions to his gamers and in the course of the Coppa Italia match between Como 1907 and FC Internazionale at Giuseppe Sinigaglia Stadium on March 03, 2026 in Como, Italy. (Picture by Marco Luzzani/Getty Photographs)
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“I take all of the soccer choices. The sporting director, he’s day-to-day with me and we see soccer the identical approach. The signings, we work with knowledge, we’ve our scouting and stuff, nevertheless it must be one thing that I consider in. It must be a participant that I’m satisfied about.
“I’m so comfortable and fortunate that we’ve a president that trusts me rather a lot and has given me the arrogance to go and take all of the soccer choices. That, for me, is admittedly necessary.”
Fabregas repeatedly mentioned that he used to open the gates of the coaching floor at 6am, however goes into additional element of how a lot Como have constructed to observe his imaginative and prescient.
“The gymnasium I designed with the architect. I designed the glass on the entrance. I realized it from Arsène [Wenger]. I remembered that the gymnasium must be wanting on the recreation on the pitches for the injured gamers.
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“All of the meals comes right here, it was an previous constructing, and I did it the best way that I really feel is correct. And all of the pitches, all the things. On the stadium, I mentioned we’d like an even bigger pitch as a result of we’re a crew that desires the ball, we’ve possession. So I made the pitch greater.
“In Italy, folks have been saying ‘no, no, why 65 metres? Make it 63 as a result of meaning you possibly can defend higher’. So it’s a bit the idea of you have a look at soccer in a method or one other.”
MILAN, ITALY – APRIL 21: of Como 1907 talks to Cesc Fabregas, Head Coach of Como 1907 in the course of the Coppa Italia Semi-Ultimate match between FC Internazionale and Como at San Siro on April 21, 2026 in Milan, . (Picture by Marco Luzzani/Getty Photographs)
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Now that they’re on the verge of qualifying for Europe, Fabregas can’t wait to see what occurs subsequent at Como.
“We began this journey, not on the bottom flooring, however at minus 10. So we’re forward of schedule and we’re within the early days. I really feel that this membership has a lot potential, however that is what I used to be given. You realize, that is the fantastic thing about this mission, ranging from nothing to make someday a European membership.”
“I’m having fun with what I’m doing. I’m in a stupendous place with wonderful individuals who let me work they usually belief me. Daily, I really feel like I’m at college as a result of day-after-day I must make a loopy quantity of selections all around the membership. And, for me, that is good as a result of I’m studying sooner than perhaps doing it one other approach.”
NAPLES, ITALY – NOVEMBER 01: Cesc Fabregas Como 1907 head coach greets Antonio Conte head coach earlier than the Serie A match between SSC Napoli and Como 1907 at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona on November 01, 2025 in Naples, Italy. (Picture by Francesco Pecoraro/Getty Photographs)
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Some had instructed Fabregas would make Italy coach, however that is one other factor he’s in completely no hurry to expertise.
“For those who ask me now ‘do you wish to coach a nationwide crew?’ I’ll inform you ‘no’. As a result of I really like teaching. I really like being day-after-day on the grass. I really like being with the younger gamers. I really like the person classes. I like it all.”