Fabregas goes to Barca for £35million

[Dog Toffee]

Your discussing it now.

[Marc Overmars]

You're.

[fakeyank]

He's gone, the money hasn't been spent anyway so I can't see what another 10m would have done.

On we go.

It hurts thinking about what we couldve done with the money and what we actually did..

[Xhaka Can’t]

Mo

[Master Splinter]

You're.

Pwned tbh.

[Niall_Quinn]

Id rather have £40m+ which clubs would have paid.

As soon as Cesc stated his desire to leave then he should have been put on the market. We shouldnt have given a toss about where he wanted to go. We should have looked after ourselves and got the best price possible. Barca would have paid £40m. Of that there is no doubt but Wenger is an awful manager these days

Absolutely correct, though the fee should have been £55-60mill. £40mill was an insane bargain, and we couldn't even get that. All this crap about Fabregas not "being mentally here", so what? Do people think he was really going to fuck his career because he didn't fancy it come match day?

Unrelated to your post but to the thread in general:

This isn't about Fabregas, it's about a board and a manager that are fucking our club over. Both the board and the manager are still here, still fucking our club over. For those who don't like "*******s" on the Internet - turn your fucking computer off, you're the one with the problem not the people coming here to discuss issues connected to our club.

[Niall_Quinn]

If it's a matter of not spending £35m vs not spending £50m I'm not sure the difference isn't academic.

Even if they had been willing to go that high, would the extra millions have made been spent or pocketed?

And if the latter, how does that help us?

Pocketed, and that's why they can take a price cut because there's no intention of reinvesting and it's all profit. That's the point, everything this board does works in their favour. Coincidence?

[Ollie the Optimist]

Absolutely correct, though the fee should have been £55-60mill. £40mill was an insane bargain, and we couldn't even get that. All this crap about Fabregas not "being mentally here", so what? Do people think he was really going to fuck his career because he didn't fancy it come match day?

Unrelated to your post but to the thread in general:

This isn't about Fabregas, it's about a board and a manager that are fucking our club over. Both the board and the manager are still here, still fucking our club over. For those who don't like "*******s" on the Internet - turn your fucking computer off, you're the one with the problem not the people coming here to discuss issues connected to our club.

i agree he is worth much more, but every time arsenal said no or we want forty etc barca just then spent every moment of the next week making sure everyone connected with barca said how unfair it was and all that bullshit and just unsettled him even further. and a major fan complaint last year was cesc wasnt interested and we wanted rid. yes we didnt get his true value but we never were going to

[Coney]

Pwned tbh.

That's 'Owned'. Just because some ignorant texters and posters use that abomination, it does not excuse you sonny.

[Niall_Quinn]

i agree he is worth much more, but every time arsenal said no or we want forty etc barca just then spent every moment of the next week making sure everyone connected with barca said how unfair it was and all that bullshit and just unsettled him even further. and a major fan complaint last year was cesc wasnt interested and we wanted rid. yes we didnt get his true value but we never were going to

We're worried Cesc won't be "mentally here" and yet when the club is required to be mentally on the ball in the transfer market the response is, "We'll never get that, we must sell him, he wants to leave, we have no choice...", and every other excuse under the sun. Losing is so deeply ingrained at this club now, in everything it does.

Also the reason why we're still talking about this is the RvP and Wilshere transfers are just around the corner, probably Walcott and Vermaelen too and maybe even Chesney. Within 2 years any half decent player will want to be out of here. If they are on contracts and we don't wish to completely implode, what do we do? Admit it is inevitable they will leave and implode anyway?