Fabregas goes to Barca for £35million

[Alan B'stard]

Yeah cos he has ripped shit up for them and NYC hasnt he, he was wank the last season and a half he was here and had sciatica which took his pace, perfect time to sell and a good price. Also We got £30mil+ for Overmars (knee) and Petit (back) AND i also notice you miss out the £13mil they had to pay us for Hleb, who couldnt get a game at Birmingham last season. In fact if anything we have given them the full meat.

If you are going to make such ridiculous declarations as least try and qualify them in an informed manner.

henry was so shit for them for most of his first season that their brass said "whoever signed him deserves a slap."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...pe/7353306.stm

[selassie]

i can see thiago being part of the deal, with the mancs wanting him too can just see AW trying to get him 1st. We should be calling more shirts in terms of players we want in return.

I get the impression that Tiago wants to have a crack at trying to break into Barca's first team before he considers any move away, especially one to a new country.

[Toronto Gooner]

I get the impression that Tiago wants to have a crack at trying to break into Barca's first team before he considers any move away, especially one to a new country.

I have heard that said as well. However, there have also been comments that his few chances in the first team are going to get even fewer with Fabregas there. He might not even get onto the subs bench for many games.

However, do Arsenal really want a player who will be agitating for a move back to the team of his DNA in 3 years or so?

[Letters]

Anything that goes on the BBC site can be taken seriously, they don't post any old rubbish.

That is nowhere near as true as it used to be.
The BBC's standards are pretty low these days.

[Coney]

henry was so shit for them for most of his first season that their brass said "whoever signed him deserves a slap."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...pe/7353306.stm

That's the thing. Disregarding for a minute that Henry was getting older and would therefore be more likely to be injured, a player can be great in one team or league and less effective in another. It would be funny if we sold Cesc for 35M and then he turned into a damp squib -especially if our buys with the money turned up trumps.

[Letters]

How we got him has f all to do with his price now and we shouldnt sell for less than £45m.

And hes under contract with us for a few more years yet so we can deny him any move unless we get the money we want.

We wont do that though cos Wenger would never stand up against his players

Apart from last summer when he told Fabregas he was staying and Barca to sod right off...
Every year we keep him our position gets weaker. If we kept him for another year and then ended up having to really sell him on the cheap or, worse, go on a free, everyone would be bleating about how we should have sold when we were in a strong position.
We should sell him this summer IMO, we've got enough in midfield without him and this is our last year in a strong enough position to get decent money.
And £35m is decent money for him IMO. If you disagree then fair enough, we'll agree to disagree.

[Darth Vela]

That's the thing. Disregarding for a minute that Henry was getting older and would therefore be more likely to be injured, a player can be great in one team or league and less effective in another. It would be funny if we sold Cesc for 35M and then he turned into a damp squib -especially if our buys with the money turned up trumps.

That would be hilarious, doubly so if we won the league, triply if we won the CL by beating Barca.

[selassie]

I have heard that said as well. However, there have also been comments that his few chances in the first team are going to get even fewer with Fabregas there. He might not even get onto the subs bench for many games.

However, do Arsenal really want a player who will be agitating for a move back to the team of his DNA in 3 years or so?

TG, yeah if they get Fabregas then his time will be up, unless he's prepared to wait for Xavi to retire, even then he wouldn't be guaranteed a spot. My worry with getting Thiago would be that we would essentially have him on loan until he reached world class level then they would want him back, albeit for an inflated fee.

[Cripps_orig]

Apart from last summer when he told Fabregas he was staying and Barca to sod right off...
Every year we keep him our position gets weaker. If we kept him for another year and then ended up having to really sell him on the cheap or, worse, go on a free, everyone would be bleating about how we should have sold when we were in a strong position.
We should sell him this summer IMO, we've got enough in midfield without him and this is our last year in a strong enough position to get decent money.
And £35m is decent money for him IMO. If you disagree then fair enough, we'll agree to disagree.

I think theres a difference between standing up to a player and doing what Wenger did last summer.

Standing up to Cesc would have meant telling him to STFU about Barca, tell him hes not being sold and get on with it here.

What Wenger did, tell Cesc to give it one more year and then we'll see

Cesc is still young. Has a few more years left on his contract. We can and should get more than £35m. Is he worth as much as Carroll? Like hell he is.

[Japan Shaking All Over]

can see Arsenal not accepting 31mil unless they get a player worth at least a carrot thrown in!

however if a cash offer of 40mil comes along then I can see us biting........which may be the way we will be left to go, we can put up a fight but I don't think we have the weight the likes of Utd etc who could hold out on Ronaldo, we may just have to accept that to some we may be considered a feeder club the same way we look at the likes of Southhampton

40 mil along with money his departure frees up for salarywill pay for the names we have been most strongly with, Gervinho, Alvarez and now Cahill

we should have more left over for lets say Mata

couple that with the departure of some dead wood we could even add a few more

I dont think we can go into next season with a smaller squad than what we have already, which is what seems to be the case every new season (no figures to fall bck on, just seems like that......well the quality is definitely lower)