AS Monaco midfielder Cesc Fabregas was happy to be reunited with Nice coach Patrick Vieira this season.

The Spaniard has revealed a hilarious story from when the pair met earlier this year.

"I saw Patrick Vieira when we played against Nice with Monaco," he told Nice-Matin.

"It was very funny because I met him in the locker room before the match, he was with the President of Nice and he said to him while looking at me: 'President, this is the kid who made me leave Arsenal'."

Cesc admits it was hard to leave the Premier League.

"I am a competitor first and foremost," he continued.

"I will be able to say at the end of my career that I have experienced all the situations in a club, the top and the fight.

"I was sad at leaving London and the Premier League it represents 10 years of my life but also very excited to discover a new challenge probably the hardest of my career.

"I have never been afraid of challenges."