it destabilises the fans more than anything but thankfully they aren't playing for the team so we will be fineOriginally Posted by gunnerrrrr
it destabilises the fans more than anything but thankfully they aren't playing for the team so we will be fine
Well it does i mean its quite clear he is not respected by most in the dressing room, not it will only get worse if he stays tbh.
He will have more "Hamstring" injurys then he did last season if stays and behaves the way he is.
It's not clear at all that the dressing room doesn't respect him. Wilshere, VP, Wenger etc have all said they want him to stay.
Not sure what more he could have done, we all know he wants to go there but won't say anything to ruin the deal / out of respect for the fans.
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Definitely don't want Affellay...
where did you get that all seeing truth from?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2...%28Football%29Arsène Wenger failed to conceal his contempt for what he considers to be Barcelona's underhand tactics in attempting to prise Cesc Fábregas away from Arsenal. This is hardly surprising. For a look at Barcelona's finances suggests Los Blaugranes can hardly afford the Spain international. A report last month by the University of Barcelona's football-finance expert, José María Gay de Liébana, entitled Spanish Football in the Throes of Crisis, lays bare Barcelona's embattled balance sheet.
A 2009-10 turnover of €398.1m (£350.9m) is indubitably healthy, driven by a television deal worth €157.6m. (By striking individual deals, between them Barcelona and Real Madrid seize 49% of the total Primera Liga broadcast revenues.) Indeed, the net debt of €59.1m is nothing to be concerned about, since the current book value of the playing squad, placed at €213.2m, is plainly understated. This simply reflects the success of La Masia academy, since players who are not signed for fees are not accounted for on the balance sheet.
But Barcelona's operational costs are enormous. A player-wage bill of €234.8m is the highest in the world, and puts the wages-to-turnover ratio at a heart-stopping 76.8%. "Other running costs" push total expenditure to €380.1m. This means spare cashflow in 2009-10 stood at £15.9m and with a debt burden of €548.6m weighing heavily, there was negative interest cover, according to Gay de Liébana. For a fan-owned club, this is not a pretty picture.
"[That] Barcelona, the Liga champions and Champions League semi-finalists in 2009-10 and winners in 2010-11, are technically in a state of bankruptcy is alarming for the entire football sector," Gay de Liébana said.
Can Barcelona afford a £40m transfer outlay and minimum £25m future commitment in wages for Fábregas? Go figure. But by putting Xavi's unsettling comments about the Catalan on Barça's official website, perhaps they think they can get him on the cheap.
some people need to just stick to running small towns
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2...bregas-arsenalThe situation that Cesc Fábregas finds himself in at Arsenal is akin to a "kidnapping" and the London club should allow him to return to Barcelona, the mayor of his home town was quoted as saying on Friday.
Fábregas, 24, has made no secret of his wish to return one day to the club he left as a 16-year-old in 2003 but has stopped short of publicly demanding a transfer.
"We want him to come right away, he is experiencing a kidnapping," Estanislau Fors i Garcia, the mayor of the Catalan town Arenys de Mar where Fábregas grew up, was quoted as saying in the Barcelona-based daily newspaper Sport.
"If the English are so honourable they should behave properly," he added. "He [the Arsenal coach Arsène Wenger] has to stop clowning around because it's disorienting for all of us."
Barcelona failed in their attempt re-sign Fábregas in the summer of 2010, and look increasingly likely to do so again this year, having already had two bids rejected by Arsenal.
Stump up the cash or fuck off. It's becoming embarrassing now
If you don’t send this signature to ten people, you will become a Spurs fan.
http://www.goal.com/en/news/12/spain...st-criticism-?Barcelona defender Gerard Pique has taken the time to defend team-mate Xavi in the wake of Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger's criticism of the influential midfielder.
Wenger recently hit out following the Spanish international's comments that Cesc Fabregas is suffering as a result of transfer talks and that he wants to leave Arsenal for the Champions League winners, but Pique feels that Xavi didn't do anything wrong.
"Barcelona and its players have always spoken with respect. Any player would suffer when there is so much talk about his future and when you don't know where you will play next term. It's not disrespectful to say this out loud," Pique said, according to Sport.
Pique then went on to discuss the potential arrival of Fabregas, who continues to be linked with a return to Catalunya, and stated that it is best to stay quiet on the subject.
"I know what the situation is like. We should leave Cesc alone and show patience. There's still plenty of time to complete his proposed transfer. It doesn't help to talk about it all the time."
The 24-year-old has a contract with Arsenal until the summer of 2015, and Barca have been associated with a swoop for both Fabregas and Udinese's Alexis Sanchez, with the latter's move expected to be completed imminently.
Fucking clowns.
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