Fabregas goes to Barca for £35million

[IBK]

They keep including the £5mill "compensation" in the figure. That is not part of the transfer fee. The transfer fee is what Barca pay Arsenal for the player. If Fabregas has waived money he hasn't even received yet that has nothing to do with what Barcelona paid us. That's between us and Fabregas and he obviously had to give it up to make the deal happen. Plus it's over 4 years anyway.

The one thing I would say is that ultimately AFC had no choice over this. It was like King Canute trying to hold back the sea. And while Fabregas avoided saying he wanted out, those who think this move hasn't been as much down to the player agitating to move as it has been down to Barcelona are, in my view, being utterly naive.

[Kano]

Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, Villa, now Fabregas. Untouchable.

and sanchez

[Niall_Quinn]

and sanchez

Shut the fuck up already!

[Kano]

oh and thiago

[Power n Glory]

€200 million on Cesc's buyout clause.

[Letters]

€200 million on Cesc's buyout clause.

I'll have to arrange a little ceremony when the hundreth person mentions this irrelevant figure.

[Niall_Quinn]

I'll have to arrange a little ceremony when the hundreth person mentions this irrelevant figure.

It's not at all irrelevant. It means they are determined to hand on to him for the duration of his contract unless they get a crazy offer. It's them saying, "Hands off, this player is ours and is going nowhere." This for a player they didn't really need and weren't that bothered about signing. A bench player, a take it or leave it proposition. Obviously that bullshit doesn't float any more. This was a player they were absolutely desperate to land, hence the relentless pursuit, but our club wasn't strong enough to exploit that fact. People couldn't give a fuck what his buyout clause is, they give a fuck we got screwed on the fee. And we bloody did too, absolutely screwed. How much shit has to happen at this club before some people say, wait a minute this is some pile of shit that's building and has been building for a long time.

[Kano]

[Marc Overmars]

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[Niall_Quinn]

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Can't we just carry on to RvP without going to the bother of starting a new thread? We could do Jack here too.