Fabregas goes to Barca for £35million

[Alias]

you forget landsbury as well, who looks like he could do a job

Lansbury will never be good enough to be a first team player.

[Darth Vela]

you forget landsbury as well, who looks like he could do a job

Yeah, I reckon he could be useful, proper gooner and plenty of English experience after a while in the Championship.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Please stop talking nonsense. A smaller squad means you can afford bigger wages. It doesn't have to be £200k players, but you get rid of three players that earn £50k for sitting out injured, on the bench....the type of players that shouldn't be wearing the Arsenal shirt, we could afford a pay out bigger wages to exceptional players. But it doesn't take an Augero to beat Birmingham City in the Carling Cup final. We just needed more experienced players in key areas, like in goal, at the back and up front. And if we're going to sell Nasri and Cesc, we need to replace them with experienced players. With Nasri and Cesc off the wage bill, that's more money to spend.

Thats why i said if we bring in 6 players of qulaity its going to cost big money on wages. Everboydy wants mega signings at this club do you think top players want less then 120K a week these days. we can't afford much on wages even if we get rid of the shite on good money.

[Power n Glory]

Thats why i said if we bring in 6 players of qulaity its going to cost big money on wages. Everboydy wants mega signings at this club do you think top players want less then 120K a week these days. we can't afford much on wages even if we get rid of the shite on good money.

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So Samba and Cahill will want £120k a week? A keeper like Given or the Dutch No.1 Stekelenburg are on £120k a week?

First thing first...we can't even agree with a transfer fee from the clubs, so wages doesn't even come into it. Also, nobody is calling for mega signings. Just experienced players.

[Ernesto]

What I don't get is why the board have been procrastinating, dilly-dallying, pussyfooting around with Barcelona over the £35mil price tag only to agree a fee of £35mil in the end. F***in 'ell, it makes us look like a laughing stock.

The board and Wenger can pretend that we spent the whole summer trying to persuade Cesc to stay and time has caught up on Arsenal (i.e. the player wanted to leave and we had to accept any fee that came in for him) but that clearly isn't the case. I can't believe I'm saying this but we ought to have taken a leaf out of Tottenham's book and the stance they've taken on Modric.

The player wants to leave for Chelsea. It's as clear as day. However, Tottenham are continually shifting the goalposts, constantly pricing them out of a deal until, eventually, the player has to like it or lump it- he's staying a Spurs player. They did the same thing with Manchester United and the projected Berbatov deal. Spurs got a great deal out of it and, in spite of what Manchester United fans might tell you, they ended up paying £10mil too much for him in the end.

So very close to the big kick-off and we're already f***ed up personnel-wise. The worst start possible in terms of transfers in a long, long time and, what's more, it was self-evident that we WERE going to sell Nasri and Fabregas in cut-price deals as the transfer window closure came ever closer.

[Ernesto]

And just to truly reinforce my point about Modric, Merse has just called him "one of the top 5 players in world football" on GSS

[Marc Overmars]

I think the difference is though Modric doesn't want to leave as intensely as Cesc. That saga also hasn't been going on as long, Spurs still hold a few chips there, where as we have pretty much gone all in.

[Ernesto]

I think the difference is though Modric doesn't want to leave as intensely as Cesc. That saga also hasn't been going on as long, Spurs still hold a few chips there, where as we have pretty much gone all in.

We honestly don't know that. All we know is that Modric has put in a transfer request and Fabregas, ironically, hasn't (for all the bleating coming out of Catalunia). We can't gauge just how much either player wants to leave.

The only thing Spurs can offer Modric (that we have Cesc) is the armband and a pay-rise. Otherwise, the boards at WHL and the Emirates, although only a few miles away, are poles apart in terms of policy.

[Özim]

We honestly don't know that. All we know is that Modric has put in a transfer request and Fabregas, ironically, hasn't (for all the bleating coming out of Catalunia). We can't gauge just how much either player wants to leave.

The only thing Spurs can offer Modric (that we have Cesc) is the armband and a pay-rise. Otherwise, the boards at WHL and the Emirates, although only a few miles away, are poles apart in terms of policy.

Well we kinda know that, one spends on transfers and the team, the other is only interested in profit.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

We honestly don't know that. All we know is that Modric has put in a transfer request and Fabregas, ironically, hasn't (for all the bleating coming out of Catalunia). We can't gauge just how much either player wants to leave.

The only thing Spurs can offer Modric (that we have Cesc) is the armband and a pay-rise. Otherwise, the boards at WHL and the Emirates, although only a few miles away, are poles apart in terms of policy.

We did take the same stance as them but it was last season. This is the first season Modric has shown a desire to leave, perhaps it will be a similar situation for him next summer.