Fabregas wants to go to Barcelona

peterstorey said:
That's the plan but it probbaly means that it's not vital for it to happen this year. Interestingly while lots of Barca players have been saying 'we'd love Cesc to come'. I haven't heard anything from Iniesta. As Wenger said recently; 'They keep saying buy players for the team ..... but not in my position'.
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Maybe Iniesta has not been asked?

But I assume your implying Iniesta is worried about his place in the team if Cesc comes? Which he shouldn't be as he's miles better than Fabregas.
 
Spanish NT could very well serve as a test case for Barca this summer.

If Xavi, Iniesta and Cesc play and click together or not. Regardless I agree with Pete, I do not think Barca have the money to buy him this summer unless they flog off Zlatan for atleast 30m or so.
 
Looks like it's going to happen. Barca have confirmed they are in negotiations officially with Arsenal.
 
Great news, will make arsenal weaker as I can't really see them buy big no matter how much they get paid..
 
Blair said:
Maybe Iniesta has not been asked?

But I assume your implying Iniesta is worried about his place in the team if Cesc comes? Which he shouldn't be as he's miles better than Fabregas.
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Well, he's not. This past season Cesc was far better.

Fact is, though, that Iniesta is as good out on the left of Barca's formation as he is in the middle, so what'll happen is that Cesc will take Iniesta's role in the middle alonside Xavi and Biscuits, and Iniesta will take up the departing Henry's place on the left. The person who's really going to lose out is Ibrahimovic, and that's probably because he's fecking shite.
 
One of my Arssenal supporting mates reckons they should get 80 million for him. He is pissing in the wind if he thinks they will get that much.

I reckon 35-40 million is a fair price.
 
You can just tell what will happen now. Barcelona have a lot of money at their disposal and Fabregas clearly wants to leave. Wenger knows very well that he cannot keep him against his will. Im sure they will accept a price somewhere in the region of £50m for him. No way they will get near Ronaldo's £80m fee because Fabregas is not the FIFA World Player of the Year and Barcelona are not as foolish with their money as Real Madrid.

Looks like those rumours of Arsenal targeting Yoann Gourcuff have some truth in them. I can definitely see them buying him to join Chamakh in their team for next season. They are crying out for more experienced players and maybe selling Fabregas will turn out in their own best interests.
 
Although this move is likely to weaken them as a team it is also weakening the entire league.. Henry, Ronaldo & now Fabregas.. I fear for the PL.. Now I don't care about the viewer-ship and all that rubbish I just think that would mean English clubs are less likely to attract top class Foreign talents.. Although the softening to this is the to be soon introduced 6+5 rule..
 
Rooney24 said:
One of my Arssenal supporting mates reckons they should get 80 million for him. He is pissing in the wind if he thinks they will get that much.

I reckon 35-40 million is a fair price.
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:lol:

I agree with your £35-40m estimate though. What a team Barcelona will have now..!
 
He'll go for around 45mil, Wenger will promise to reinveste in an amazing player to replace him. But he'll either spunk it on an unknown or a reallllly young starlet that will only play league cup games.
 
The Spanish press say they've offered less than 40M euros with a BAFO of 45M to come. That won't be nearly enough.
 
Barcelona offer £29m for Cesc Fabregas


by Raoul Simons and Neil Gardner
From Times Online
June 2, 2010

Barcelona have made a formal bid of £29 million to Arsenal for Cesc Fabregas.

The Spanish champions are keen to conclude a deal for the midfield player before the World Cup and sent Arsenal their written offer on Tuesday night.

The bid is likely to be rejected as Arsenal have a much higher valuation of their captain who is under contract for four more years.

The move, however, is a clear statement of Barcelona’s intent and sources at the club are “optimistic” of re-signing their former youth player.

“Everyone knows that Cesc wants to play for this club and everyone knows that we also want this. But there is a third major player, which is Arsenal,” Joan Oliver, Barcelona’s director general, said.

“Any deal must go through them and June 1 was the beginning of the period of official negotiations. Until earlier there were informal conversations, but since yesterday these are formal - and the usual mechanism is to present a formal and concrete offer.

“So yesterday afternoon, we submitted a written bid to Arsenal.”

Rafael Yuste, Barcelona’s vice-president, added: “I’m optimistic that he’ll be able to sign for Barca as soon as possible and it’s clear that everybody here will give him a warm welcome.

“We’ll do nothing that might make it more difficult for him to come here and we won’t rush things - but we won’t stop either.”

Fabregas, who has a contract at the Emirates until 2014, has already told Arsene Wenger, the Arsenal manager, that he wants to leave the club and return to his homeland.

Barcelona have already signed David Villa, the Spain striker, from Valencia for £34million this summer.
 
There's no chance they'll get him for that much with 4 years left on his contract.

edit: that's less than Villa want for Milner :lol:
 
If i was Arsene, I'd accept 30 mil and Yaya Toure. Then I'd quickly spunk that on Gourcuff, that would be their midfield sorted. Steel and guile all at once.
 
another quality player leaving the league, send all the dead wood abroad! give us your youngsters
 
He's not worth much more than £30m.

If Arsenal supporters think they're going to get £50m for him, they can think again.
 
He isn't worth any less than Kaka who went for 70M euros. He won't go for less than £50M.
 
I think it'll be around £40-50M. He's obviously very good, but I don't think he has the 'name' to command a £60M+ transfer.
 
I agree with Mike, Kaka had the World Player of the Year title on his CV, Fabregas won't command the same level of fee.
 
The two transfers are not comparable pete.

edit: although I do think it'll be more than £36m
 
It's a trade sale not a consumer sale. Fabregas is one of a handful of players ranked just below Messi and Ronaldo.
 
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