terrychoichelsea said:
thanks for the info. Do you know how much we offered to Arsenal? Also did you have other info of other players?
thanks.
Apparently the initial offer was 39m from us, 43 from Barca, 50 from RM. I don't know if those offers have been revised since, but Barca are supposed to come back with a revised contract in the next few days.
The only reason I'm not dismissing our offer is that
A) He already plays second fiddle to Xavi ad Iniesta for Spain, and might not want to do the same every week at Barca.
B) He doesn't care as much about Barca as the Catalan press/fans like to think. He's leaving primarily because he wants to win trophies.
The other side is that he could just be using our offer as a bargaining chip for higher wages from Barca. I don't know, I'm not at the table.