Lets not be Delusional: Cesc is Going to Barcelona
20. May, 2010 
16 Comments
The writing is on the wall. Barcelona want Cesc. Cesc wants Barcelona. This is the way it was a year ago, this is still the way it is now. Wenger managed to persuade Fabregas to stay for just one more season, but given the same-old lackluster could-have-been-a-trophy performance, he has no reason to stay.
We have lost a lot of players to Barcelona. I have no doubt in my mind that Cesc will be the next. I have resigned myself to it, not just because we are seeing the same patterns in the media from all sides on this story, but also because Cesc himself has said he wants to go back to Barcelona. Qualifying such a statement by saying “but I’m still under contract with Arsenal and the World Cup is next” doesn’t really mean anything.
The more important question that Arsenal supporters should be asking at this point is how exactly the team is going to look next year without Fabregas. Who else can Wenger bring in?
but not for just 30 mill barca wants to pay!!!
I might be inclined to agree, if Barcelona could actually afford him.
i want a ferrari for my birthday too.. all i cld afford was a joint.. oh well..
i think if we got 6 million for him we should take it, he is very over rated
Id be fine with it if we could get the 50m+ hes worth in today’s market and we spent the 30m or so I expect it would take to bring gourcuff in to replace him, but barca wont pay up.
I think we’ve always known he would go to barca eventually, but I dont know that this is the year..
They want our captain and playmaker, he is under contract for 3 more years and he also wants to go. No problem, we have put a price on him: 80 million pounds or no business. The ball is in their court now…the either put up with the way the transfer market is or they simply shut up, Barca players, presidents, press and all! When you want a top player, you pay top dollars!End of.
agree with the last post, however i disagree with the article. Nowhere has cesc come out and said “i want to leave”. Its all just rumours and gossip. How would anyone know about a secret conversation with him and Wenger? its ridiculous. Lets just wait and see
In my opinion, cesc is going to leave and I can’t blame him for numerous reasons.
1. cecs literally breaks his ankle getting the team back in the game against Barcelona, where they scored 2 easy goals. And we lose 4 1 in the return.
2. when hes on the field, he is surrounded by medicore players, denesion, alumunia, fabiska, silvestre, diaby who blows hot and cold, Bend who needs 10 touches to control the ball, and any talents players at the club are under 20.
3. INJURIES, Ramsey and Edu, cesc was on the pitch when they happened.
4. He actually wants to win something and he is reaching his prime age.
5. This season
I am not convinced he will go.
Yes the silence coming out of the club is deafening. But we know every year the presidential elections for Barcelona take place and they always say they have signed players.
Cesc is sick and tired of saying he is going no where so I am not surprised at his silence.
Either way its a much needed kick up Wengers arse. I hope he realises that to keep the team together and to show some ambition he has to add to the squad.
I can’t believe you’ve been convinced by some sky sports hack that we’ll sell our best player to a club that by their own admission need Arsenal FC to comply in the sale, which we most likely won’t.
So what if fab is leaving and why are you getting so scared of what really. It’s only football and fab leaving will not be the end of the great club Arsenal. So everyone should just calm down and let arsene and the managers at the club get on with it.
Fab is a wonderful player but if he has to go then so be it. Another player, another star will rise again .
Why add to the hysteria? especially as as Arsenal fan and blog. No one is fooling themselves, if Cesc wants to go, SEE YA MAN! well, only for about 70 mil.
Find something to write about other that the flavor of the day, especially in such light.
don’t be stupid, he’s not going anywhere.
guillem ballague talks so much shit it’s untrue. he has charmed his way into being the most well know english language commentator on spanish football without actually knowing about anything behind the scenes. he’s a liar.
ignore the story, fabregas has 5 more years at arsenal.
i’m sick of all these down and insecure arsenal fans. i’d hate to be married to them. as soon as barca flashes it’s eyelashes at your boy you fall to bits! it’s all fatalism and hysteria and mad jealousy. grow a fucking pair.
Why bother to blog if you have nothing to say?! Have I learnt anything? No. Was it interesting?No.
Don’t think I’ll visit again…
I don’t think he’ll go to Barcelona this season… I think he’ll go in the 2011-2012 season when he has a year left in his contract and his valuation will lower between £25-30m then.
At the moment he is too expensive for Barca, too expensive for a player who is not even guaranteed a starting place in their current line up.
A player exchange between Yaya and Cesc is not going to happen, Yaya’s agent has said he does not want to join us.
Arsenal will NOT reduce their demands, if anything I think we are the best team in the world for not getting done with crap deals, we got Arshavin for like £15m when Zenit wanted like £25m and we get all our players for reasonable fees.
And another way to look at it, is that Cesc might have the power to get the players we need in the squad… he could easily sit down with Wenger and say: “yes, I beleive in many of our youngsters but we are carrying some deadwood which we need to replace with quality players, you do that and I’ll be happy to stay for another season”
That’s what I’d do if I was Cesc anyway… he is not far from getting trophies here but we might need at least a new GK, 1-2 CB depending on Gallas, 1 DMC to replace Denilson and be cover for Song.