Fabregas goes to Barca for £35million

[Özim]

Sad as it may be to see him leave, Cesc is much more of a Barca player than Arsenal player...their style will suit him to the ground and he'll excel there.

He's been great for us, but I've never been convinced his style of play was right for us or the Premiership, Wenger has tried to create a clone of Barca and we are a clone, but a far inferior one who can't realistically compete for trophies due to not having the same quality of personnel.

Reckon it's high time we switched back to a higher paced game.

[Darth Vela]

It's not like we try to pass the ball slowly though, our game breaks down when our movement and work rate disappears not because we deliberately try to sabotage our own football by switching the speed to slow. In terms of Cesc, he used to slow our game down a lot more but is very effective in the Premiership now, some games I think he is less effective in than others and that's when other players need to realise that and stop looking for him to provide the only creativity.

The only benefit from him leaving would be that we'd play a more rigid 4-4-2 kinda formation more often, maybe trading the extra versatility for one of our best players would be worth it but I'm still not sure.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Speculation:
Reports in Italy suggest AC Milan could mount shock bid for Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas

http://www.skysports.com/football/tr...,14896,00.html

[Alias]

Someone change the title of this thread, and the clichy one. Everytime I come into this forum I think theyve already gone. It gets my hopes up (about clichy)

[Marc Overmars]

BARCELONA have officially tabled a £27million bid for Cesc Fabregas.

Barca president Sandro Rossell made the verbal offer to Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis.
But the bid from the European champions was immediately rejected.
Barca - having ended the phoney war - are now ready to increase their bid to £30m.
But that will not be enough to tempt Emirates manager Arsene Wenger to sell.
However, a £35m offer could seriously test Arsenal's resolve to hang on to Fabregas, 24.
And Barca remain confident that they will finally get their man.
A year ago, the Spanish giants failed with £29m and £31m bids for Fabregas, who is still keen to return to the club where he started his career.

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...#ixzz1Q8ylZDRC

27m?

Oh dear.

[Cripps_orig]

Oh dear indeed. Not the offer but the bit where it says we'll prob accept £35m.

[Ollie the Optimist]

they really are a fucking joke of a club. they insist he is worth only 35 million then go and bid less then that. fuck them, fuck the lot of them, stupid cunts. sell him to madrid for a tenner just to piss them off

[Boss]

We rejected their bid.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/st...as-bid?cc=4716

He won't be worth much less next season, might as well keep him. The amounts they're offering are way too low.

[dazthegooner]

They were talking about it on skysports and even they agreed Cesc is worth alot more he is one of the best midfielders in the world.

[selassie]

they really are a fucking joke of a club. they insist he is worth only 35 million then go and bid less then that. fuck them, fuck the lot of them, stupid cunts. sell him to madrid for a tenner just to piss them off

I hope we refuse to do business with them, f*ck em.