Today's supposed to be put-up-the-£40M-or-shut-up day and Barca's ultima offer of 38M euros has been rejected.
Fabregas to Barcelona!
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What's that, around £33-34m?
Barca's pursuit is becoming rather shameful now. It seems quite clear that their tactic is to seriously unsettle the player to try and get him for a fraction of what he's worth.
Fair play to Arsenal for not just surrendering.
Fair play to Arsenal for not just surrendering.
About £33M and only 29M euros fixed with two variable bits of 6 and 3 (they were counting the 6 as covered by the compensation for Toral Harper and Bellerin - I assume that's off the table otherwise it's an even more derisory offer).
I can see one of these major players testing their contract's validity in court soon as an unjustified restraint of trade.
Embarrassing by Barca.
Fabregas is a £50m player - absolutely no question.
I expect him to be with Le Arse next season. Nasri too.
Arsene Wenger needs to make some moves now and get a couple of top quality players. Mata and Cahill would be good additions but Wenger doesn't want to even pay market price for them. The bids for Jag and Cahill were embarrassing...
Fabregas is a £50m player - absolutely no question.
I expect him to be with Le Arse next season. Nasri too.
Arsene Wenger needs to make some moves now and get a couple of top quality players. Mata and Cahill would be good additions but Wenger doesn't want to even pay market price for them. The bids for Jag and Cahill were embarrassing...
Arsenal can hardly be moaning about Barca's low bids for Fabregas when they're always looking to get players on the cheap themselves.
Let's tempt them with a £20M offer for Thiago whilst they need the cash to fund the Fabregas deal.
Well exactly. I'm sure the former clubs of Chamakh and Squillaci (amongst others) won't have much sympathy with Arsenal over Barca trying to get one of their players to force his employers to sell him for less than they think he's worth.
Sébastien Squillaci unrepentant after forcing transfer to Arsenal | Football | The Guardian
They both turned out well didn't they?
Arsenal don't have to sell Cesc this summer. He has three more years on his contract. So they can demand high transfer fees next year too.
I am still surprised Arsenal are willing to sell for £40m.
I don't understand why we don't publicly offer 40m + 200k a week. He's the player we need, I wouldn't take anyone over him, he would be pure class at United.
The same reason nobody bothered to go after Ronaldo. They either stay at the club they're at, or move to the one they want. Nothing else matters.
From elsewhere:
Barca reps have left London - No deal for Fabregas.
So the saga ends for another season.
No hay acuerdo entre Barça y Arsenal por Cesc Fábregas - barcelona | liga bbva - AS.com
Otra reunión por Cesc sin acuerdo | barca | SPORT.es
Barca reps have left London - No deal for Fabregas.
So the saga ends for another season.
No hay acuerdo entre Barça y Arsenal por Cesc Fábregas - barcelona | liga bbva - AS.com
Otra reunión por Cesc sin acuerdo | barca | SPORT.es
Cesc will either stay at Arsenal or go to Barca. There is no other option, and as long as Barca dont come up with serious money, they will have to wait for another 2 years to get him on the cheap. Arsenal must be fed up with the acting of Barca, and honestly, its not worth a top club
It's so boring this. I personally would strip him of the captaincy - not because he's unprofessional, but it's embarrassing that we're captained by someone who isn't going to be here long term.
Make Eboue captain.
Give it to Robin.
Then you'd have the problem we had with Rio.
You don't really have much captain material.
Wilshere one day, and that's about it.
If Arsenal buy a decent centre half (maybe Cahill or Jagielka) and with Fabregas apparently staying, they should be serious contenders this year.
Vermaelen would do alright at it. There is no stand-out admittedly. I can see us giving it to Szczesny in a few years myself.
Van Persie's not a leader. And what is with this Arsenal fad of calling players by their first names? Makes you sound like a wanker.
What's this United fad of all their fans being based in London? Makes you sound like a wanker.
There just aren't any good London teams to support so we have to look further afield.
40 million is a steal for a player of that ability. Barca are being wankers.
I'd love to see Arsenal tell them to get fecked.
Surely Cesc would have to accept that Arsenal cant let him go for less than they value him at just because he wants to go.
I've never even been to London yoy cheeky bastard!
I've thought for a while that our position is 'if Barca offer fair value you can go but we're not selling you cheap'. £40M is 20% off if you ask me.
Looks like the only way things are going to change is if Fabregas refuses to play in the CL qualifiers, which I don't see happening. Will Nasri go to auction if Fabregas isn't sold?
Yeah I think most people would agree with that. I'd say 50million minimum given not only how good he is but also his contract situation and age.
I actually think thats quite a fair price.
I actually think thats quite a fair price.
I think he'll be sold if Fabregas stays and we'll buy Mata as a replacement.
And if Cesc goes Nasri goes to the centre and Mata replaces him.
I just cant work out why Wenger hasn't already brought Mata in.
I just cant work out why Wenger hasn't already brought Mata in.
Not going to Portugal with the team for the pre-season.
Because he's hoping to keep both of them?
But even in the best case scenario you'll be in the same situation next summer. May as well buy the replacement now if he's available.
Because he wouldn't go to us (he loves Arsenal, just not as much as Barca) and Arsenal would rather sell him for less to a foreign team than to their title 'rivals'.
Would be fun though.