Cesc Fabregas' west side story of success motors on

Key: Cesc Fabregas celebrates sealing Chelsea’s victory at the Britannia Stadium on Monday

Cesc Fabregas tells a pertinent story of Jose Mourinho, once his nemesis and now his manager.

This was the moment when Fabregas and Mourinho put aside their differences. It had only been months ago when Fabregas had demanded Mourinho "Shut up" for his criticism of Barcelona. They had also been rivals, west London against north and Real against Barcelona.

But no more.

It represented so much that Mourinho could even attend. Fabregas was astonished to discover Mourinho had missed his son's last game of the season to meet him. He had attracted interest throughout the transfer market, his agent had been contacted by various clubs but now Mourinho was setting it straight, Perhaps it was the tip of the iceberg.

They both needed each other. Mourinho side had suffered from a dearth of flair while Fabregas had languished during his Catalan inquisition.

Mourinho believed he could restore Fabregas's stature among Europe's most accomplished midfield stars. And almost surely, he would. Fabregas's west side story of success motored on at the Britannia Stadium on Monday evening, simultaneously registering his 12th assist of a stellar campaign thus far and sealing the momentous victory with a touch of sheer genius.

The Spain international was a key figure, orchestrating Chelsea’s fluency and further accentuating his midfield genius. His impact upon arrival at Chelsea has been enormous. Perhaps the most pressing concern for the Matthew Harding Stand last season was the visciously evident dearth of potency and ingenuity, two dillemas solved by Fabregas and his Spanish compatriot Diego Costa.

It wouldn’t take long for Fabregas to acclimatise to the Premier League, his home from home. He has provided Chelsea with a crucial creative edge, the capability to dismantle a team with fluent football. Grand impact It was patently obvious on his Chelsea debut that Fabregas would grace the Premier League with football of the grandest splendour.

The midfielder condemned Burnley as the first victims of his mercurial excellence since his return to London, with a display of sheer dominance. The 27 year-old has gone from strength to strength, shimmering as Chelsea’s creative force. He is playing the best football of his life, an admission which will make painful reading for Arsenal.

Cesc feels more confident at Chelsea

‘I feel in control and that’s what I like the most in football,’ said Fabregas. ‘I touch the ball all the time, I feel happy, I go and get the ball from here, from there, I can go forward, Oscar drops deep. I feel free, I feel confident.

‘Sometimes in the last three or four years in the national team and Barcelona, I was playing like a No 9. I mean, I have to do it for the team and I enjoy it, and it’s all good. But, here, where I am playing today, in these games, it’s where I enjoy my football the most. I feel right now I am playing some of the best football of my career.

‘I’ve played in World Cup finals, European Championship finals, Champions League finals with great teams. I’m not saying the (last two) games against West Brom or Schalke were the best, probably they weren’t, but definitely they were games I enjoyed a lot.

‘I didn’t just come here to play well and that’s it,’ he said. ‘I came to win trophies. If I can play well and enjoy myself, the better.

‘We have to win trophies. No-one remembers a great, great team if you don’t. We have to win and that will say a lot from us and people will judge it how they want to judge it. The most important thing is to keep it going and at the end of the season we can talk.’

Fabregas believes in what he has always yearned for. The Spaniard spoke of the ‘courage, discipline and talent’ driving Chelsea’s excellence, the attributes, he believes, which could spark his side’s charge for the quadruple, an assumption Mourinho disagrees with.