British tabloid Daily Star claims that Barcelona will make a bid for Arsenal midfielder and Spanish international Cesc Fàbregas (21) during the winter transfer period next January.
Although Barcelona would initially have made Cesc the top target for next summer, after a board meeting earlier this week, the club is now ready to start the process of trying to sign the Catalan midfielder immediately.
A Barcelona official is quoted as saying that the fans don't care anymore about the fact Cesc left Barcelona being a youth player: "His departure for England has been completely forgotten. Pique returned to Barcelona and now we want Fabregas back. Barcelona know that he loves the club and they will do whatever they can to use the emotional ties he has with Barca to get him to return. It will take a lot of money, but he will be the No.1 priority."
Barcelona, that plans to use Cesc's close friend Alexander Hleb and other friends and family of the player to try to convince him, would be prepared to pay a transfer fee of more than 37,5 million euro°, which probably won't be enough for Arsenal, but Barcelona sports director Txiki Begiristain would have have told coach Josep Guardiola that they will pay what it takes to sign Cesc.
Friday, 7 November 2008
Barcelona preparing January bid for Cesc
Read more:
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
23 comments:
37,5 million euro =
47 million us dollar
30 million british pound
its not gonna happen in january and certainly not for that kind of money. It would be a mistake to buy fabregas for so much money. What kind of signals would you send to other youthplayers. " that they can betray us and then we will buy them back?"
Dont see why they want him now.. Wait 2 seasons. Xavi and Don Andres are better. If he (Cecs) cant beat the two for a place in the starting 11 for Spain, why would he in Barcelona.
"Anonymous, Even if Xavi and Iniesta are better. 1. Iniesta is playing as a left winger, 2. Cesc is a Center Midfielder and playmaker like Xavi. 2. Players get injured we can´t keep going with Xavi and Iniesta the whole season. 3. Pep Rotates the squad, Xavi is maybe the only 1 playing all the matches now because there is no logical replacement for him, that´s why Cesc would be. Also I´m not that convinced with Keita. I would love to see a midfield of Busuqets, Xavi and Cesc at Barca ! Catalan power ! GO FOR IT !
a midfield with toure or busquets with xavi and cesc is fantastic. iniesta plays left wing this year so no problem.
I would try to get get henry or/and gudjonsen in the deal. even toure if pep doesn't see anything in him..
Henry + guddy + 10m will do!
jordy
FCBFan is abso-fuckin-lutely right.
Only thing that scares me is the price. It will be much more than 37,5M and Arsenal may ask for someone of Barca players. It will be great purchase, especially because he stated this year that he wants to retire at Barca. Buying him and another striker will make Barca the meanest football machine in the world.
If We have any chance of singing Him, I say go for it. He is a top player in His position and He is going to be for next ten years or so. As for betreyal, You have to understand him, He was young, He had to think about Himself. Geting into barca team as youth player back then was almost misionn imposibille, so We shouldnt hold any grudges. He will cost very much, but that is OK, We can aford it.
Toure and henry may be interested in going the other way, we have kieta and busquets who can play the same role as toure. Iniesta can play on the left and that leaves a midfield of cesc xavi busqets keita and gudjohnson. Add in benzema who is coming to spain and we have a foward line of messi iniesta etoo bojan benzema and hleb. I think that is a pretty decent foward line and overall a very good balance.
Oh year i almost forgot 20 million pounds henry and toure should be enough for arsenal if cesc decides he wants out.
Everyone above who has says Barca should bid for Cesc in January:
You all have basically given up your right to complain when a youth player leaves Barca for other clubs. Don't criticize any youths who leave in the future; you will be hypocrites if you do.
Wenger demanded 40M for Ade, so you need to get him drunk before start negociating if u wana have any hope to get Cesc for 37M.
Its enought that the rumor say we will get him in january to know its was made by tabloid Daily Star writers, not reporters.
do we need him or not?hm...I may ramble for that oneday ;)
Man,that is insane.
To give a 37 mil. for someone who left us and now cries to come back.
Also,we can get Crosas next summer for a fee of just 2 mil. I think and he has the potential to be one of the best.
Mes que un Club!!!
I think Arsenal would only accept to sell Cesc if we give them Toure plus a heap of cash. A very exciting prospect though, a midfield of Xavi and Cesc, and a maturing Busquets behind them would be phenomenal.
Iniesta is getting better and better on the left wing as well, so I think they could definitely all 4 play together in one squad. And as it is today, the team is pretty small and could really use an extra midfielder.
Everyone talking about him having betrayed Barça, please just get the f over it. Players switch teams all the time.
If at his age he gets an offer from Arsenal and people are making his head spin with promises and money, of course there's a big chance he'll accept. And can we really blame him? He became huge at Arsenal, so it's not that he was very wrong in going there I think. The fact is that he's a world class player who grew up in our academy and loves the club. If we could get him back, I wouldn't have to think twice about supporting that.
We got Piqué back as well, and though he didn't cost that much, I'm still very pleased he's here because he's a player who can lead the defensive line for many years to come. The same goes witch Cesc, but in midfield obviously.
jr is right. I think Toure and/or Keita would need to go to Arsenal. There would be some type of exchange involved. They are interested in Busquets as well.
The price tag looks big, but honestly it doesn't really matter for a club like Barcelona. Anything under 50 is very manageable. Barca would earn that back in ticket and jersey sales. Think of how much money we made off of Ronaldinho all those years.
Busquets as DM with Cesc and Xavi pulling the strings. That is an absolute dream midfield for Barca that we'd all be lucky to witness.
Cesc is going to leave Arsenal one way or the other because Wenger won't be around much longer. He and Fergie will leave about the same time. Cesc knows this, coupled with Arsenal's lack of ambition, and it makes sense he wants to leave sooner rather than later.
In my opinion if we go after Cesc we would need to offload somebody from our midfield and in my opinion it would have to be Keita to make way for him(Cesc).I think that right now we don't need another creative midfielder because we already have Hleb but he hasn't fully be integrated in to our squad as yet but we do need another playmaker from midfield to give Xavi a rest during the season but Cesc is not going to come cheap and knowing Wenger he would want to carry away some of our youth players which i don't agree with so i would try to find a cheap alternative and forget about Cesc.I would probably go after Hernanes from Sao Paolo,Joao Moutinho from Sporting or even Aqulani from AsRoma bit that is just my opinion but it would be great if he came back but most likely not in January but in the summer.
Do you want Cesc, Benzema, or an Eto'o renewal this summer? Not to mention the current Xavi extension. Barca can't get everyone.
The analysis from everyone is debatable, but when Pep posts something about Cesc, most want to get him. When Pep posts something about a Xavi renewal, most can't believe we have not signed an extension yet. When Pep posts something about Eto'o, everyone can't believe we have not signed him to an extension. When Pep posts something about Benzema, most say get him.
We can’t get everyone!
I recommend that along with your analysis, everyone also posts how high the particular individual (or transaction) is on the overall Barca project.
I don't think money is a problem tbh. Barça have almost completely cleared all of their debt and are in an extremely healthy position financial wise. Also consider that the money spent on Cesc would be earned back fairly quickly through merchandise alone.
I'm convicend a team filled with expensive players like Messi, Eto'o, Xavi, Iniesta, Alves, Puyol, Fabregas, Herny or even Benzema would be very affordable to us at this point.
Cali socis, since i'm the only one that mentioned benzema on this page i'm gonna assume your comment is aimed at me. If you notice I mentioned henry and toure under my plan would leave if cesc were to come in. That would leave a space up front to fill. Iniesta could play on the left with Etoo and Messi as the other two. But after that all we really have is Bojan
who in all honesty needs some time to continue to develop. Now benzema has reportedly declared recently that he is interested in coming to spain. I dont know about you, but i'd much rather have him playing for us than madrid. The same goes for Cesc. These are not galactico buys, these are sensible strategic buys that will improve our team. I did not say we should go after cesc, this site raised the story saying our board is interested in cesc in january. you want a list of order fine
1) Busquets renewal
2) Xavi renewal
3) Eto renewal
4) Cesc
5) Benzema
When Benzema is pounding goals into our goal after cesc sets them up for madrid, i hope you are not blaming the board for letting them get away. My own view is that we should wait a few more years for cesc, but if he is ready to return to spain, i for one would be really angry if our board let him go to madrid.
we don't need that player
jr, we will not get much money from merchandise such as jerseys, because most of that money goes to adidas i think unless we're nike (i don't care who it is)anyway cali soci is right in some ways, but getting cesc is still almost mission impossible and we'd have to include yaya touré and maybe more...
We shouldn't talk anymore on this matter only until january or april...
They said pique would never come back and look, he is back here and at low cost. I cant believe this is even a discussion, Cesc for toure, its not as if we dont have other quality replacements to play in toure's place. he also has to leave for the african nation's cup every other year, in a crucial part of the season. Cesc for Toure, i'd take that any day of the week.cesc is younger more talented and a product of the barca youth academy. He already knows messi iniesta pique and busquets. There is no doubt. If he wants to come back, I for one would welcome him with open arms. Or maybe you would rather see him in the white of real madrid? They do not hesitate in matters such as these.
yes this is a fantastic issue.i think he would be a great inclusion to our milfield and i dont think he would be a mistake when iniesta is always playing as awinger this season and peps rotation policy as affected every body this season except xavi.so if cecs should be bouhgt he would be good as a partner and altenative for xavi.he is talented and incridible but i dont want him to be bouhgt with that huge amount of money,and if so.just lets sell henry and guddy to afford the money cos its not sensible to have henry,guddy in a squade of inista and cecs,they wont have a good partning time and their pairing is so fantastic in spain.
Post a Comment