Fabregas goes to Barca for £35million

[Boss]

Barcelona president Sandro Rosell is so concerned about the reported €450 million worth of debts the Primera Division champions have run up that he has banned colour photocopies at the Camp Nou in order to save money on toner.

With coffers so bare it's no wonder that Rosell said repeatedly this week that he won't spend any more than €40 million on perpetual transfer target Cesc Fabregas (that's a lot of photocopies) and it also explains why Alexis Sanchez's €30 million move (forget photocopies: pass me the Etch A Sketch!) from Udinese is taking so long.

Rosell blames the club's current cashflow issues on his predecessor, Joan Laporta, and when asked how he could get the club back into the black he said: "By being austere, hard and losing friends. We are suffering with it. We removed the catering events, our bodyguards, and we have even stopped making photocopies in colour at the club. Now we do black and white and save on toner."

However, in the true spirit of the debt-laden approach to modern football, Rosell insisted the club still have transfer funds available. "We negotiated a syndicate credit with the bank ... We have sorted out the situation and what the economic area has achieved means we have €45 million to spend on transfers this summer plus sales."

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns...r-paul?cc=4716

Bunch of fucking clowns.

[Japan Shaking All Over]

spare me the sob story

pay up or shut up

[Olivier's xmas twist]

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns...r-paul?cc=4716

Bunch of fucking clowns.

there is the real reason, they don't want to pay 6p million for cesc not because they don't want to because they can't afford too.

tell them to feck off and flog him to jose m

[Niall_Quinn]

AMBITION: Appreciation of being at the starting gate with potentially one of the best midfield pairings in the history of football, most likely the future national captains of Spain and England, Cesc Fabregas and Jack Wilshere respectively. Two of the most naturally gifted footballers on the planet and, if Wenger can build the team around them instead of fucking around, a possible route back to the joyfully brilliant and WINNING football we surely all want to see.

LACK OF AMBITION: Trying to get as much money as we can for our best player. If Cesc goes then we are in the wilderness for years, not because he's irreplaceable (although I doubt one of the 2-3 players on the planet who could replace him will be available or affordable) but because our new owner is effectively agreeing with the disastrous (look at our on-field results) policy of selling our best players in order to maintain a healthy balance sheet. If Cesc goes then we can kiss goodbye to success at this club for as long as Krusty and the gang stick around, which could be a long, long time.

If it's true that we only want £44mill for Fabregas then we're a laughing stock of a club. A complete fucking joke outfit.

[Power n Glory]

We're negotiating with Barca. We're trying to sell Cesc.

[The Verminator]

AMBITION: Appreciation of being at the starting gate with potentially one of the best midfield pairings in the history of football, most likely the future national captains of Spain and England, Cesc Fabregas and Jack Wilshere respectively. Two of the most naturally gifted footballers on the planet and, if Wenger can build the team around them instead of fucking around, a possible route back to the joyfully brilliant and WINNING football we surely all want to see.

LACK OF AMBITION: Trying to get as much money as we can for our best player. If Cesc goes then we are in the wilderness for years, not because he's irreplaceable (although I doubt one of the 2-3 players on the planet who could replace him will be available or affordable) but because our new owner is effectively agreeing with the disastrous (look at our on-field results) policy of selling our best players in order to maintain a healthy balance sheet. If Cesc goes then we can kiss goodbye to success at this club for as long as Krusty and the gang stick around, which could be a long, long time.

If it's true that we only want £44mill for Fabregas then we're a laughing stock of a club. A complete fucking joke outfit.

£44M would be a reasonable fee imo. The problem is that we're unlikely to add that fee to the transfer kitty, and thus we will be significantly weakened.

Here's hoping Barca fail with their bids and we add some much-needed quality players to those we already have.

[Cripps_orig]

It wont be anywhere near £44m if Cesc goes.

The fee will be closer to what Barca want to spend rather than what we want.

You can bank on that

[KSE Comedy Club]

We're negotiating with Barca. We're trying to sell Cesc.

Sauce or gtfo.

[budesonide]

We're negotiating with Barca. We're trying to sell Cesc.

which is right up our alley... as opposed to shelling out 50mil on two renowned classy players to supplement what we've already got and to show we mean some fu*cking business.

however, this will be too risky -- we'd rather buy unknows and let them make their name with us a season or so then "reluctantly" flog them off; we then hit the REPEAT BUTTON.

[Coney]

Sauce or gtfo.

Are we really in the running or just playing ketchup?