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Barca ‘Paranoid’ Arsenal Will Activate Fabregas Clause
As Man Utd Eye Third Bid
It seems Arsenal’s buy-back clause
for Cesc Fabregas is causing a few sleepless nights over in Barcelona and it’s
also the reason why the Catalans are refusing to strike a deal with Manchester
United, according to reports.
United have already seen two bids
rejected by Barca for Fabregas and the newspapers claim today that David Moyes
is ready to go back in with one final offer worth £35m plus add ons.
However, it seems that bid is
destined to be rejected once again with the Mirror reporting that
Barcelona are being forced to reject ALL offers for Fabregas because of our
buy-back clause that allows us to re-sign Cesc for just £25m IF Barca agree to
sell him to someone else.
So for example, if Barcelona
accepted a £40m bid from United, that would allow us to activate our buy-back
clause and sign Fabregas for just £25m. Of course any move would be subject to
Cesc agreeing to join us over United, but we know he would so that’s
irrelevant.
The Mirror also claim that
Barcelona have become ‘paranoid’ that we’re ready to use our clause and are
just waiting for them to agree a deal with another club before activating it.
This would possibly explain why we’ve been so quite throughout the whole
Fabregas-To-United saga. Wenger knows we’ve got the clause, he probably also
knows Cesc would opt to join us over United, so he’s just sitting back letting
it play out and he’ll jump in if needs be.
The boss said this a couple of weeks ago:
‘We have the clause in the contract
so we would be on alert. At the moment, Fabregas has decided to stay one more
year at Barcelona. That’s what I’ve been told.’
Arsene has said many times that he
still keeps in touch with Fabregas so I’m sure he knows the situation better
than most. As I’ve said throughout this saga, Fabregas will never join United.
The Mirror’s report also
suggests that Barcelona have come up with a cunning plan to circumvent
Arsenal’s clause by allowing Fabregas the chance to buy out his own contract
for £48m, but that’s just ridiculous and not even worth discussing.
Arsenal fans are rightly slamming
the club for their transfer dealings so far this summer, but at least they got
something right when they agreed a buy-back clause when we sold Cesc Fabregas
two years ago! Hopefully we’ll get to use it some day soon….
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