Fabregas goes to Barca for £35million

[Master Splinter]

Yeah I know what I said.

I'm just wondering how on earth you think we'll sign them when there are four or five club's in the Prem alone who can outbid us and the competition for young talent has increased ten fold since Wenger became boss.

I hope you're right but I'd be surprised.

I can't think of many Arsenal midfielders who were better than Cesc. I think you're forgetting how good he was. Plus he was in a shit team. Watch him and weep when you see how good he is for Barca.

Things change. Unless the world stops tomorrow, Arsenal will have ups and downs and we'll have more Fabregas' and Bendtner's.

Fabregas has had some brilliant moments but has also shown himself to be a flawed player many times. If he's great at Barcelona, it will be great to watch.

If you want to see it as the end of the world, that's fair enough. I'm not going to be that dramatic about a player who didn't give a fuck for 18 months.

[Niall_Quinn]

Arsenal will have ups and downs and we'll have more Fabregas' and Bendtner's.

These "ups", what time scale are you talking about? A season, a couple of seasons, a decade, a geological era? And what do we class "up" as any more? A CL final? A Mickey Mouse cup final appearance? Beating Barca in one leg of a CL match but losing in the end? Grabbing meaningless points against Utd? It's slim pickings. Of course the world won't end, mercy is fleeting.

[fakeyank]

These "ups", what time scale are you talking about? A season, a couple of seasons, a decade, a geological era? And what do we class "up" as any more? A CL final? A Mickey Mouse cup final appearance? Beating Barca in one leg of a CL match but losing in the end? Grabbing meaningless points against Utd? It's slim pickings. Of course the world won't end, mercy is fleeting.

[Xhaka Can’t]

If there was competition for his signature, we'd have got shedloads more.

There wasn't because he made it clear that Barca was all he was interested in. The alternative was holding him to his contract. While that could have been done, even if he did perform, or we left him onm the bench, this circus of disruption would have continued.

Its over now, all I would say is given what hapopened, it would have been better for this circus to have ended last month, even if it meant getting a little less.

[Master Splinter]

These "ups", what time scale are you talking about? A season, a couple of seasons, a decade, a geological era?

Hopefully the last one.

I can be sure I won't have to endure your endless ranting on GW then .

Although I'll keep an archive of your Ref Rants.

[Niall_Quinn]

So no "ups" then, that's what I thought.

[Master Splinter]

You don't rate your Ref Rants then?

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

we are getting 14.5m euros now and 14.5m euros in september according to arsenalreport. then the variables will kick in over the next 5 years.

shocking deal.

[Niall_Quinn]

we are getting 14.5m euros now and 14.5m euros in september according to arsenalreport. then the variables will kick in over the next 5 years.

shocking deal.

Beggars belief but I guess the board is over the moon. The couldn't give a fuck about football so to them it comes down to £500K + 8 years wages spent, in return for about £25mill. I guess they cleared £5-£10mill when you add in merchandising, additional receipts etc. Good deal when you look at it from a purely business angle, which is precisely what they do.

[Marc Overmars]

we are getting 14.5m euros now and 14.5m euros in september according to arsenalreport. then the variables will kick in over the next 5 years.

shocking deal.

Who cares man about the structure.

Only a fraction will be spent on players anyway.