Fabregas, a chance too good to ignore

[Ray78]

The squad is effectively full so any acquisitions now means departures excluding Kolo. Ok so for arguments sake Dzeko leaves and Falcao joins. Who does fab replace.

Silva, unless he signs his contract extension.

And if he does sign, is fab classed as home grown? I thought the consensus was fab would play alongside Yaya

Yep he will be classed as homegrown, but we can't fit Nasri, Silva and Fabregas together. We are well stocked up in midfielders so it is all hypothetical, and all being well David Silva will sign his new contract.

 

[Bluesiam]

I can't see Fabregas coming to City and quite honestly, don't see where he will fit unless we sell. It seems too like he is carrying baggage with him. He must have been a pain in the backside for Arsenal fans in his last season with them.

Also, we will almost undoubtedly wait and see how the new signings work out before considering any major new signings like this.

 

[Danamy]

The unhappiness of Ronaldo and Fabregas, plus the clear availability of Falcao means that unlike in the window just gone there may soon be players available who can clearly improve our already talent squad. In summer most of our main targets seemed unavailable or snatched by other clubs (Hazard for example).

If Ronaldo ever moved there's only one team in Europe that could afford him, it's as simple as that............

Yep.PSG.

You underestimate our owner, very foolish!

 

[hgblue]

If Ronaldo ever moved there's only one team in Europe that could afford him, it's as simple as that............

Yep.PSG.

You underestimate our owner, very foolish!

We seem to be taking FFP very seriously, so doesn't that rule this out? I know we'd make any fee back over time, but does FFP take this into account?

 

[The Fat el Hombre]

All day every day yes fucking please. Class act, great age, proven to be shit hot in the prem. With him not getting game time at Barca you'd expect him to go for a smaller or similar fee than what they paid for him and he'd be worth every penny and then some

 

[charliebigspuds]

As much as I love our Dave, if he is intending to feck off then Fabregas would be the ideal replacement along with Tranny just to piss the rags off

 

[Danamy]

Yep.PSG.

You underestimate our owner, very foolish!

We seem to be taking FFP very seriously, so doesn't that rule this out? I know we'd make any fee back over time, but does FFP take this into account?

The very reason why Soriano is the man to take the club forward, he's a master with the books and gets the figures right to make things happen. This will also include Txiki Begiristain (but that's just my opinion)

By this time next year we'll have a marquee signing in place, i'm confident enough for you to quote me on that.

The Sheikh has attempted to capture Ronaldo in the past and i'm sure if he gets the thumbs up he'll be tempted to return, may also tie in nicely with the launch of Nike?

 

[bluethai]

Yep he will be classed as homegrown, but we can't fit Nasri, Silva and Fabregas together. We are well stocked up in midfielders so it is all hypothetical, and all being well David Silva will sign his new contract.

Can't see any problem there, if Barca can put the likes of Iniesta, Xavi, Messi, Busquets in their line up and keep winning week-in week-out, why can't us too? Fabregas will slot in our midfield nicely imo.

Iniesta, Xavi, Messi, Busquets

Nasri, Fabregas, Silva, Yaya

 

[petrusha]

I'm only about a third of the way through, but I'm currently reading Soriano's book, which I bought off Amazon last week. In the bit I'm up to now, he talks about the way he and his colleagues raised Barca's income quite dramatically after they arrived at the club in 2003. One thing they did was go straight out and buy Ronaldinho, a superstar player who at a stroke made the club much more marketable internationally.

Just saying, like.

 

[hgblue]

I'm only about a third of the way through, but I'm currently reading Soriano's book, which I bought off Amazon last week. In the bit I'm up to now, he talks about the way he and his colleagues raised Barca's income quite dramatically after they arrived at the club in 2003. One thing they did was go straight out and buy Ronaldinho, a superstar player who at a stroke made the club much more marketable internationally.

Just saying, like.

A nods as good as a wink and all that :-).