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And to shin pad manufacturers the world over. :)

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Not buying this Fabregas back to England rumour. Xavi not got long left and he's long term successor.

Expected moves:

Navas -> Madrid/City
Isco -> Madrid/City
Bale -> Madrid
Thiago Alcantara -> Utd/City
Cavani -> Chelsea/City
Baines -> Utd
Roque Santa Cruz -> Stoke
Higuin -> Juventus
Falcao -> Monaco

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Thiago Alcantara could end up anywhere tbh. hot property on a cut fee.

I'd love for Arsenal to buy back Fabregas, 30 odd million buy back clause if reports are to be believed. He wont go to Utd, plus he would cost them too much.. I think again from reports he has a massive release clause.

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weird lol

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A) Why would fabregas leave Barca?
B) Why would he go back to Arsenal?

B is more absurd than A.

It's British paper trash talk because they have nothing to talk about. Fabregas will not be leaving.

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The story is being printed because Barca isnt dominating

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Just because he has a massive release clause doesn't mean that barca wouldn't accept a lower bid than that. It will be interesting to see what happens there...

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He isn't leaving. End of.

He is the successor to Xavi who is 33 now and his contract until 2016 will probably be his last.

Fabregas has an amazing record of averaging a goal and an assist nearly every 3 games. (given that includes sub appearances)

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Possible problems when/if they get into Europe.

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a fair few cheeky bets going on Rooney to Arsenal ;)

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I don't see Fabregas leaving to be honest. It seems to be entirely an obsession of the papers. I do hope he comes back to Arsenal however, we do have first refusal.

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bet365, the only betting site im signed up to thanks to a silly voucher i had has no transfer betting or have i missed it?

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Chelsea fans classy as ever

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Not if be turns them down tho.

Rooney to arsenal is crap too.

This so called £100m "kitty" is nonsense. It does not mean they can't spend £100m. As it is cash reserves not income. It also means wages need to be factored in. Effectively Rooney on a 5-year deal and £25m say fee would cost £65m.

You'd only be able to sign a £20m player with the rest.

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wtf are you talking about. theres over 100m in cash reserves + add in the upcoming revenue hikes. our wage budget has increased more than people expected, no one seems to be talking about that. 'effectively' taking 2-3 deadwood useless not used players off the payroll can fund Rooney.

btw football clubs have a wage budget and transfer budget. 2 different things.

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Fab hates Utd. Hes shown that many times including throwing pizza at Fergie :p: oh and little things like this...

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2013/05/1.gif

If Cesc is unhappy at Barca then theres a few things to bare in mind. IF Thiago leaves on the cut-fee clause kicking in then I doubt very much that Barcelona will willingly allow Cesc leave. I doubt Utd will be bidding BIG for him so that leaves one of the oil rich to trigger the release clause or Arsenal of course triggering the buy back clause.

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Cesc isn't unhappy at barca.

Arsenals "£100m" though doesn't stretch far at all as I said.
Their wage bill is actually high for the average players they have. They cannot afford to splash out on more than 1 big player. So wringer chooses to buy lots of lesser ones instead. That's why they were unable to offer van persie finances to stay.
They will be a feeder club to elite European clubs.

I like arsenal btw like a 2nd team to me.

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Could you provide recent proof that hes happy or unhappy for that matter as we're only going on recent reports. apart from this btw ;) http://www1.skysports.com/football/n...England-return

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...medium=twitter

100m isn't much if you start throwing it about. 100m is actually a decent budget, I have issues with the media reported 70m kitty tbh. Arsenals wage bill is extremely high for the quality on the books, everyone knows that but a lot of that deadwood is going to taken off the payroll. some are leaving with contracts running out and the rest hopefully transferred out. also the wage budget can be increased this summer.

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Take everything you read about football transfers with a pinch of salt. Probably the only type of story that requires little proof but is still published.

Until you see the guy walking into the club, best to ignore