Fabregas goes to Barca for £35million

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Who knows? Chances are they are going to the final again, I doubt he'd want to sit it out if he could avoid it. It was ONE card amongst several, but we folded anyway so it's neither here nor there I suppose. We move on, let's get some abject shite in to replace him, preferably someone very cheap because we don't have any money after all those years of making a profit on our transfer dealings. The Toure/ Whore cash vanished this probably will too.

He wouldn't sit it out, that's my point. He'd only miss the group stages.

[Niall_Quinn]

He wouldn't sit it out, that's my point. He'd only miss the group stages.

Is that for real? You can play for 2 clubs in the CL? Okay so not a huge card but the contract was no joker.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Is that for real? You can play for 2 clubs in the CL? Okay so not a huge card but the contract was no joker.

Yup. You are only allowed to register one extra player (who has already played European football) when the knockout stages come back around in February though.

[fari]

Yup. You are only allowed to register one extra player (who has already played European football) when the knockout stages come back around in February though.

dang...all these loopholes

[KSE Comedy Club]

So, this is excellent news!

Cant wait to see the back of him tbh. Just need to get shot of Nasri now and we'll be onto a winner

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Except for the fact he would only be unavailable to play for Barcelona in the group stages of the Champions League. Hardly devastation for him.

No you can't, you can only play in the cl if you played in the Europa league before. Thats why Torres was allowed to play in the CL and.

If he played for us in the CL he'd only be able to play for barca in the CL if we got relegated to the Europa league.

[fakeyank]

No you can't, you can only play in the cl if you played in the Europa league before. Thats why Torres was allowed to play in the CL and.

If he played for us in the CL he'd only be able to play for barca in the CL if we got relegated to the Europa league.

Oh well, thats sorted then.. we are not qualifying for the group stages so we good!

[Master Splinter]

So, this is excellent news!

Cant wait to see the back of him tbh. Just need to get shot of Nasri now and we'll be onto a winner

[Letters]

Yet again, it's NOT just a job. We are not talking about till staff at Sainsburys here.

It's not exactly the same but does that mean we should expect our players to stay with us for their entire career? He's been with us what, 7 or 8 years now? He's given us good service. He's always made it clear he wanted to go back to Barca. He's not whined about the club or come out with the nonsense someone like Cole has about the fans. If he goes then good luck to him.

[Letters]

Get out of it. We had ALL the cards. For all their bluster Barca were desperate to sign him, unless chasing a player and having your whole squad tap him up over two years in just a series of coincidences.

They want to sign him at some point, I don't think they're massively bothered whether it's this summer or not. They were tapping him up all last summer too, far worse than this year, they didn't cave in and pay what we asked though. They're the best side in club football right now. By a distance. They don't need to strengthen massively this summer, they don't want to pay what they think is over the odds for him, especially as they regard him as their player anyway. They could have afforded to wait another year.

He is on a reasonably long contract but every year it gets shorter and our position gets weaker. Our naming of him in the CL squad was obviously a bluff. We named Bendtner too and he's said quite clearly he's off. Even if we did bring him on, again, Barca could afford to wait another year. We do need the money if we want to buy - we've said openly we need to sell to buy. No, Cesc wouldn't have sulked all season but he's going to go sometime and every year we keep him his price becomes less unless he signs a new contract. Ultimately he could walk away on a free.

We wanted £40m but you can keep saying "he's worth more" all you like, he's only worth what someone is willing to pay and when you've got a player who will only sign for one club that makes it harder to up the price. We could say "City will pay £50m" but so what? He's not going to sign for City and Barca know that. We can say "pay £40m" or else. Barca could (and would) have just said "Take £30-£35m or we'll see you next summer when he has one year less on his contract".