Fabregas goes to Barca for £35million

[Niall_Quinn]

no they wouldnt have paid it. one they couldnt afford it apparently and two there was no one else to drive the price up. as soon as they started fucking around we knew they wouldnt pay much for him. wenger did the right thing and cannot be blamed for it

Of course they would have paid and of course they had the money. Everything that was "true" about this deal has predictably turned out to be bullshit. The "bench player" crap, why are you going to leave one of the best players in the world on the bench? The "didn't really want him" crap, like they didn't chase him relentlessly and employ the whole team to tap him up. I've never seen a team more desperate to sign a player. They framed the who transfer from an early stage and executed perfectly, our lot were eaten like a light snack. How do we know this for sure? Because Barca have admitted to all of it in public, they're laughing at us. No doubt they feel a sense of payback for what they consider was our theft of him in the first place. Bottom line, Barcelona 100 Arsenal 0. Only we could engineer the sale of our prize asset for half what he's worth. We are so incompetent in so many areas it's frightening.

True, the deal is done and there's no way it will be undone. But we've also paved the way for any club to come in a pick up our top players for pennies even when they are on long contracts. This means clubs will see the value in trying to unsettle our players, tap them up, destabilise us. We've sent the message it works whereas we should have categorically slammed the door in Barca's face until they paid up. Not just because we had a contract with Fabregas but because we've got some lean times ahead and if we want to avoid being second rate on a permanent basis we need to know we can hang on to our better players. The whole Cesc saga proves we can't, we're weak and we're stupid in the transfer market. But who didn't know that already? Of course we suddenly find our strength when it comes to spending money - no way would we ever contemplate paying the going rate. Trouble is, we're no Barca either on or off the pitch so all our tough talk when negotiating to bring players in just means we miss out on the player. Maybe we should get a proper team in to deal with these matters?

[Power n Glory]

i have said that he fucked up after selling cesc by not replacing etc, that is his fault. but if barca didnt put in a sensible bid in till august waht can wenger do?

Not sell.

[Boss]

i have said that he fucked up after selling cesc by not replacing etc, that is his fault. but if barca didnt put in a sensible bid in till august waht can wenger do?

Say pay before X date or GTFO.

He was on a four year contract.

[Ollie the Optimist]

Not sell.

he did that last year, it didnt work. pretty much all of us wanted cesc to go, he didnt look like he cared and his heart was not in it as it was before barca came knocking.

[Xhaka Can’t]

True, the deal is done and there's no way it will be undone. But we've also paved the way for any club to come in a pick up our top players for pennies even when they are on long contracts.

Soon, that is pretty much all they'll be worth.

[Power n Glory]

he did that last year, it didnt work. pretty much all of us wanted cesc to go, he didnt look like he cared and his heart was not in it as it was before barca came knocking.

So what’s the excuse for the rest of the team? RVP doesn’t look up to it this season, Song looks off, Arshavin, Theo looks pissed off every game…..

Like every other player on the team, he was frustrated with the results and the constant mistakes. His heart wasn’t in it because we were playing crap football. If we’d have kept him and bought some players and shown we’re trying to correct our mistakes he’d have been up for the challenge.

Selling off Cesc has really smashed the teams confidence and it’s done us serious damage. Take a look at the players in the squad and the body language. When they start looking like Cesc in his final days it has nothing to do with being tapped up by Barca. It’s just pure frustration taking its toll.

[Niall_Quinn]

So what’s the excuse for the rest of the team? RVP doesn’t look up to it this season, Song looks off, Arshavin, Theo looks pissed off every game…..

Like every other player on the team, he was frustrated with the results and the constant mistakes. His heart wasn’t in it because we were playing crap football. If we’d have kept him and bought some players and shown we’re trying to correct our mistakes he’d have been up for the challenge.

Selling off Cesc has really smashed the teams confidence and it’s done us serious damage. Take a look at the players in the squad and the body language. When they start looking like Cesc in his final days it has nothing to do with being tapped up by Barca. It’s just pure frustration taking its toll.

Not only that but when the players left behind see Cesc and Nasri moving on and up and making the headlines it's a double disaster. The only fucking double we'll be doing in a long time.

[Ollie the Optimist]

So what’s the excuse for the rest of the team? RVP doesn’t look up to it this season, Song looks off, Arshavin, Theo looks pissed off every game…..

Like every other player on the team, he was frustrated with the results and the constant mistakes. His heart wasn’t in it because we were playing crap football. If we’d have kept him and bought some players and shown we’re trying to correct our mistakes he’d have been up for the challenge.

Selling off Cesc has really smashed the teams confidence and it’s done us serious damage. Take a look at the players in the squad and the body language. When they start looking like Cesc in his final days it has nothing to do with being tapped up by Barca. It’s just pure frustration taking its toll.

i take that point and on a side point arsahvin can fuck off but before february we were challenging for all four trophies, beaten barca at home and were serious title contenders at that time and had a final to play. at that point all hte players were up for it bar him, i didnt think he really was in it 100% like the others, yes perhaps a big load of signings might have helped him stay this year but imo last season he wasnt really with us even when we were winning

[Power n Glory]

i take that point and on a side point arsahvin can fuck off but before february we were challenging for all four trophies, beaten barca at home and were serious title contenders at that time and had a final to play. at that point all hte players were up for it bar him, i didnt think he really was in it 100% like the others, yes perhaps a big load of signings might have helped him stay this year but imo last season he wasnt really with us even when we were winning

He was playing with an injury. He was never 100%.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Wenger didn't do the right thing.

We were always going to get fucked over on the price, sure that can be accepted.

However waiting until after the season had already started to sell him and STILL getting ass fucked on the price was shocking management. Not to mention waiting till the last day of the season to replace him (with Arteta).

This, Wenger should have made a deadline with 3 weeks to go so he could build from there, he did not. He left the team o rot while focusing on cesc and nasri