{"id":812050,"date":"2026-03-08T10:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T10:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/812050\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T10:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T10:43:13","slug":"cesc-fabregas-backs-comos-animal-to-break-into-frances-squad-for-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/812050\/","title":{"rendered":"Cesc Fabregas backs Como&#8217;s &#8216;animal&#8217; to break into France&#8217;s squad for World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fabregas did not hold back when discussing the potential of his number one, suggesting that a call-up from Didier Deschamps should be on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since he arrived, Butez has worked like an animal. He always wants to learn more, and he knows everything depends on how much you want it. He is a leader not just for his qualities, but also in the locker room. I think he is ready to make the step up for international duty with France,\u201d the manager told DAZN.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes we underestimate certain choices. We spent a lot of money on young players, but we bought almost unknown players like Butez, who for me is a champion. I think I have one of the best goalkeeping coaches in Spain and he had never seen a player with Butez&#8217;s mentality, he works hard every day and has become a leader in the dressing room. I think he is worthy of a national team player.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former Arsenal and Barcelona midfielder further emphasised that Butez represents the high value Como have found in the market, saying: &#8220;Como invested in young players and some of them, even if they didn\u2019t cost very much, are world class.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fabregas did not hold back when discussing the potential of his number one, suggesting that a call-up from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5309],"tags":[234408,234410,67158,2000,299,36,234409,8634],"class_list":["post-812050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-c-fabregas","tag-cagliari-vs-como","tag-como","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-j-butez","tag-serie-a"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116193146004585057","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}