Henry was a great player. In fact, if Cesc sits in the locker room of the Emirates where you feel it's because of Titi.

Henry was a great player. In fact, if Cesc sits in the locker room of the Emirates where you feel it's because of Titi. "I want that locker. From there I see the whole team," said the captain of Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger when he taught before anyone else how he had been the clubhouse of the Emirates that he designed. But Henry is gone. "Do not even expect," clarified in the offices, where no doubt it was a great player - "we signed him as such" - but insist to call "miracle" that Pep Guardiola took from him last year.

"I will accept that my players to play badly, they are wrong to make decisions and sung goals fail, but will not tolerate lack of commitment," Guardiola told the day he took office, endorsing the ideas of Marcelo Bielsa. And Guardiola knows that Henry has long to be deleted. As much as I defend him in public, to speak of him with reverential respect for a career that will indicated as a large, Guardiola, in private, he asks for more. Henry has not given anything to the team throughout the year, anything less than transcendent. A good time against Valencia, pure anecdote. Yes, Guardiola has kept the umbrella open and his teammates have embraced it like Ronaldinho in its decline, although the Brazilian's lifestyle has nothing to do with the French. In the field, the last Ronaldinho and Henry are indeed present in the shadow of their former selves.

On Wednesday, Henry played 16 minutes and 56 seconds. He touched the ball four times. He took three passes well, in short: a Xavi, Keita another and the last at Maxwell, without risking a gram. And he lost a ball that cost the Barcelona tie. Numbers aside, the feeling of apathy that broadcast was unquestionable. Henry took the field to greet the fans of Arsenal as if that was a tribute match instead of the fourth European Cup. The Barcelona meeting was not with him because he plays his games on demand: end does not like and in the center depends on the day. It was clear when Xavi twice found him with his eye peripheral to throw deep. Not found. Static, Henry did not take the hint.

Guardiola thinks that there is still a long way and the circumstances you can become indispensable. While this time comes, Peter has earned the respect of everyone because you can play bad, but always brings something. To begin, commitment. And besides, much goal. If at this stage the club has 71 goals scored between the League and the Champions League and last year totaled 114, the reason is not in the firing of Eto'o. Henry has three goals they scored 20 last season. He resigned months ago.