Fabregas goes to Barca for £35million

[fakeyank]

Oh well, my bad. I mean the seasons before that. His injury was also given as an explanation by AW for us not to winning a trophy. Too much expectation from him but none of his expectations are met.

[IBK]

Cesc is in no way innocent in this. He's acted a cunt throughout with all his pining and shit and his unprofessionalism on the pitch where he's been absolute shite for 18 months. Maybe had he actually given a fuck during those 18 months, we'd have a trophy to show for it. I don't give a fuck if he goes but I don't want him to go for peanuts which Wenger will no doubt sell him for

Cesc/Nasri - compare and contrast?

[Kano]

This really needs to be sorted out before we go on our pre-season tour to Asia. If this isn't settled by then, it'll seriously disrupt our preparations, with article after article being published about Cesc to Barca, which can't be good for the squad morale. Hopefully we sell Cesc as soon as possible, and get a top quality replacement in sharpish. Then we can finally concentrate on the players who want to play for the club.

And I don't buy the argument that Cesc is innocent in all this. He could have clarified his position on countless occasions, but has kept silent, which has simply added fuel to the fire and stimulated more inference and innuendo. I think he could easily have told his Barca friends to stop commenting on his future, because it risked destabilising the club, but the fact that players like Xavi, Iniesta etc keep talking about Cesc's desire to leave suggests that Cesc hasn't told them to keep quiet, and may even be encouraging these remarks, to force Arsenal's hand and weaken our position, therefore making it easier for Cesc to leave on a reduced fee.

what difference does it make? its been in the air for almost two years now and footballers so regularly whore themselves out, they are used to hearing colleagues want to leave as at some point they will be in the same situation no doubt.

telling xavi and co to shut up would make little difference, why would they care about distabilising the club?

what I would dearly love to happen is for man city to start stamping on some necks. put in £250m bid for messi, 300k wages and sit back. our first reaction would be that he wouldn't want to come, which is probably true. but can anyone say that barca wouldn't want to consider that sort of money right now? do the same for Madrid and ronaldo. these dicks have run the game like this for years and i would LOVE to see someone slap them up in the same way

[Master Splinter]

Cesc/Nasri - compare and contrast?

I want both of them gone as soon as possible. No point keeping fair-weather, clearly uncommited divas/players.

Obviously prefer them both to go overseas, because even shit/pointless ex-players like Thomas, Bentley and Aliadiere always score against us.

Aliadiere scoring against us .

[Master Splinter]

what I would dearly love to happen is for man city to start stamping on some necks. put in £250m bid for messi, 300k wages and sit back. our first reaction would be that he wouldn't want to come, which is probably true. but can anyone say that barca wouldn't want to consider that sort of money right now? do the same for Madrid and ronaldo. these dicks have run the game like this for years and i would LOVE to see someone slap them up in the same way

This sport is such a farce now so this would sum up the madness quite well.

[dazthegooner]

The thing is I cannot see how these guys can spend the amount of money they do because they have no hope of recouping it, so either they don't care about money (which i very much doubt) or they must be laundering money through the club...

[Xhaka Can’t]

Cesc/Nasri - compare and contrast?

One looks like a lezza and the other looks mean in leather and spits in the face of Oompa Loompas.

[Toronto Gooner]

I'm pretty sure every Barca player gets asked the same thing every time they're interviewed, so what about that Cesc fella, eh?

That can't help.

I do not doubt that they are asked the question. However, I personally think that he should say "I am in Argentina, playing for my country, and am willing to answer question on that subject."

[Toronto Gooner]

I was going to make this a separate thread but here is best:

Barca 'offer to sign Neymar in January'

Barcelona have made an offer to sign Neymar after the Club World Cup, ESPNsoccernet understands.

Real Madrid have, as has been established, already agreed to meet the €45 million buy-out clause for the player and are keen to complete a deal this summer, but there have been indications from Santos that the player wants to stay on until after December's Club World Cup tournament in Japan.

Barca have therefore said that they will wait until January before signing the Brazil international in a bid to beat Madrid to the deal.

A source close to the transfer told ESPNsoccernet:"Real Madrid have a deal in place, but Barcelona are trying to stop it going through this summer, and have put forward their own deal.

"Both clubs have agreed to meet the buy-out clause of €45 million, and while Real will go through with the transfer, there is a suspicion that Barcelona don't have that kind of ready funds and are just trying to stall the move to Real.

It had been widely reported in Brazil that Chelsea were among the clubs to have agreed to meet Neymar's release clause, but it appears that is not the case.

"They have said they won't pay," the source added. "They will not spend that kind of money on a teenager who has not been tried in the Premier League."

Neymar's father has publicly declared that Neymar wants to compete in the Club World Cup with Santos in December, which makes the Barca deal attractive, but a move to Madrid still appears the more likely.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/st...ary%27?cc=5901

Let me see, an unproven 19-year-old from Brasil (who played crap for Brasil last week) is worth €45 million but a proven club captain with PL, CL, European Championship and World Cup experience is only worth only €35 million. How many times does this have to happen before Fabregas realises that Barca are just "not that into him"?

[Olivier's xmas twist]

I was going to make this a separate thread but here is best:

Barca 'offer to sign Neymar in January'

Barcelona have made an offer to sign Neymar after the Club World Cup, ESPNsoccernet understands.

Real Madrid have, as has been established, already agreed to meet the €45 million buy-out clause for the player and are keen to complete a deal this summer, but there have been indications from Santos that the player wants to stay on until after December's Club World Cup tournament in Japan.

Barca have therefore said that they will wait until January before signing the Brazil international in a bid to beat Madrid to the deal.

A source close to the transfer told ESPNsoccernet:"Real Madrid have a deal in place, but Barcelona are trying to stop it going through this summer, and have put forward their own deal.

"Both clubs have agreed to meet the buy-out clause of €45 million, and while Real will go through with the transfer, there is a suspicion that Barcelona don't have that kind of ready funds and are just trying to stall the move to Real.

It had been widely reported in Brazil that Chelsea were among the clubs to have agreed to meet Neymar's release clause, but it appears that is not the case.

"They have said they won't pay," the source added. "They will not spend that kind of money on a teenager who has not been tried in the Premier League."

Neymar's father has publicly declared that Neymar wants to compete in the Club World Cup with Santos in December, which makes the Barca deal attractive, but a move to Madrid still appears the more likely.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/st...ary%27?cc=5901

Let me see, an unproven 19-year-old from Brasil (who played crap for Brasil last week) is worth €45 million but a proven club captain with PL, CL, European Championship and World Cup experience is only worth only €35 million. How many times does this have to happen before Fabregas realises that Barca are just "not that into him"?

But Nemar has not said he only wants to go barca, neither barca players beeing banging on about him to come. too diffrent situations tbh. Barca believe that fab should be theres because of "how we took him" they don't see that with Neymar.

End of the day if we accpet an offer of 50million from madrid see how quickly barca will raise their offer.