What's the root cause for this ? Even before the Barca players spoke about his arrival or saying that cesc wants to join them.....Cesc had spoken about his dream several times ..he wants to join Barca one day .....how anybody can blame Barca ( eventhough the tactics is clear ) players , they are just telling this is the right time to arrive. The culprit is Fabregas himself.Originally Posted by nutz
kodutha kollathum kittum...
arsenal okke ithu polathe erpaadu kur cheythitundu.. ippo karanjittu kaaryamilla..
pinne cesc will be a barca player sooner or later.. athil aarkum samshayam illa.. if arsenal is clever, they will make money right now like man utd did with ronaldo.. who knows, his market might go down by the end of next season..
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Poaching and Fàbregas
The Premier League invented the art of the youth poach — its teams use their superior TV revenue to pluck the best young players out of Europe’s academies like chickenhawks. Now, as UEFA is trying to bump up the minimum age for international transfers, the case of Cesc Fàbregas reminds us of this predatory system — and why Arsenal tears about Barcelona’s reclaiming of Fàbregas come from crocodile eyes.
Arsenal played the system so Wenger cannot complain when Fabregas goes home:
It has been great fun for English clubs to pick off the fruit of Europe'sbest clubs – but the best are proving hard to keep and even harder to replace
When Nicolas Anelka left Paris St-Germain for Arsenal in January 1997, the vice-president of the French club called it a "low-down trick" that Arsenal could sign their 17-year-old starlet for a compensation fee of around £500,000. The then president of the French league, Noël Le Graët, went one better and said that he would ask the authorities to "prevent Anelka leaving the country".
Down at the Gare du Nord they had no choice but to wave him through. Arsène Wenger knew the rules and the rules said that Anelka was out of contract and fair game. "All we need is his father's consent in writing," the Arsenal manager said at the time. "He wants to leave PSG and in similar circumstances they could come over and sign a young player out of contract with us if they wanted to."
Funnily enough, PSG never have done. In 1999, Anelka left Arsenal for Real Madrid for £23m and English football woke up to the game's most lucrative innovation since they started charging for admission on match days. The poaching of the best young players from the academies of Europe began and it was open season for the Premier League's big boys.
It is not a matter of record just how many teenage players Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City or Tottenham Hotspur have picked up on the cheap from foreign academies after Anelka led the way. But there have been a lot, so much so that Uefa is trying to change the rules on the minimum age for international transfers.
There are lots of loopholes that make this system permissible. Prominent among them is English clubs agreeing professional contracts that kick in as soon as the player turns 17. Premier League clubs, by virtue of them enjoying their sport's most lucrative television rights deal, have the resources to sign up child footballers – and they are just children – and often their families too.
Which brings us to the case of Francesc Fabregas, as he was known when, in August 2003, his signing from Barcelona at the age of 16 merited just a few lines in most national newspapers. He was, to use the ubiquitous phrase, "a wonderkid" but just how wondrous we did not know at the time.
The cost of Fabregas to Arsenal was eventually about £2m. Around £1.75m of that was already owed by Barcelona to Arsenal for the transfers of Emmanuel Petit and Marc Overmars and was deducted from the final bill. Whatever way you look at it, Fabregas was a bargain.
Seven years on, as their captain and star player is pressing for a move back to Barcelona, Arsenal would do well to remember how they acquired Fabregas. The club – and they are not alone in English football – had no remorse about taking one of Barcelona's brightest young players. So they in turn cannot complain now that Barcelona are taking him back.
Fabregas has a contract and so legally he is Arsenal's player to sell at a price of their choosing. But as they hold out for the biggest sum possible they should remember that they only had him in the first place because of this flawed system that allowed them to take away the best young foreign players from their clubs.
Although Barcelona simply have to accept that Fabregas will be expensive – and they are being very careful with Arsenal's feelings in this transfer – there is something fundamentally wrong when a club is forced to pay anything up to £80m, depending on who you listen to, for a footballer who was taken from them as a teenager for a fraction of that cost.
Those who say that Wenger was the making of Fabregas point to the fact that at Arsenal he got the first-team football he was denied at Barcelona. In fact, he played only in the Carling Cup in his first season and was not established until the following season. By which time Barcelona might reasonably have claimed that, had Fabregas stayed, he would have been part of their first team too.
Simply not picking a 16-year-old for the first team does not mean that a club forfeit their right to keep him. Over the years there have been hundreds of 16-year-old footballers, some as talented as Fabregas was at that age, who have had to wait longer for their first-team chance.
It should also be pointed out that Fabregas was hardly an average player polished up by Arsenal. In the summer of 2003 he was already at the top of his peer group in the world as the joint top scorer and outstanding player for Spain at the Under-17 world championship.
Yes, it has been a great fun for English clubs to pick off the fruit of Europe's best clubs, the likes of Anelka, Fabregas, Giuseppe Rossi, Federico Macheda, Gerard Pique, Paul Pogba and Gaël Kakuta to name but a few. But the best of them are proving hard to keep and even harder to replace.
Let us imagine Wenger's 1997 hypothesis came true and the likes of Wayne Rooney and Steven Gerrard were being spirited away at a young age on the cheap by foreign clubs before they had a chance to play for the English clubs that had nurtured them. There would be uproar. Equally so when they were sold back to English clubs at a vast profit.
But that is the scenario facing Barcelona and countless other less financially powerful clubs across Europe. So no complaints from Arsenal when Fabregas returns to Spain. They should be grateful for the seven years he has given them – and, of course, the enormous transfer fee that Barcelona will have to pay.
Sam Wallace: Arsenal played the system so Wenger cannot complain when Fabregas goes home - News & Comment, Football - The Independent
ayyo fabregas kaivittu poyo........
Cesc moves closer to Barca as per reports.... Cud reach an agreement by the end of the week it seems...
i think if cesc want to move arsenal shud cash in when he is in demand...
they can buy couple of good players with that cash..
mikel arteta if they can buy can do almost an equal job as cesc ..
Emirates Stadium Cup 2010
Arsenal v AC Milan , Today @ 1520 GMT
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Arsenal 1 AC Milan 1: Chamakh the knife looks like a real bargain for Arsene Wenger
Marouane Chamakh made himself an immediate hit with Arsenal fans after scoring on a home debut full of class.
Whether the Moroccan can go on to become a goalscoring legend in mould of Ian Wright and Thierry Henry - the type of consistent marksmen Arsenal surely need to make a serious title challenge - remains to be seen.
But the first impression of the close-season signing from Bordeaux were all good.
Cool customer: Marouane Chamakh (left) shakes off the attentions of Luca Antonini to beat keeper Christian Abbiati
When he was substituted after 73 minutes, Chamakh was given a standing ovation having scored a goal, set up a glorious opening for Andrey Arshavin with an impudent piece of skill and led the line with strength and purpose.
The free transfer looked a very good player.
With £10million central defender Laurent Koscielny giving a composed performance, Arsene Wenger had reason to believe that his summer signings can prove excellent value as he looks for some much-needed strength at both ends of the pitch.
Although Arsenal, lacking Cesc Fabregas and Robin Van Persie, irritatingly for their fans, failed to complete an Emirates Cup victory that should be been theirs but for some old failings in front of goal, there were plenty of promising signs.
Caught napping: Alexandre Pato (third right) pounces on slapdash defending by Thomas Vermaelen (floored) to glance Clarence Seedorf's free-kick beyond Lukasz Fabianski
In the early stages Arsenal went close to finding a way through from a familiar source - when their attack is struggling for a breakthrough - as centre back Thomas Vermaelen twice threatened.
The Belgium international, captain for the day in the absence of Fabregas, who has yet to return from his post-World Cup holiday, showed his heading power in reaching a corner from Samir Nasri which brought an outstanding save from Christian Abbiati.
Soon afterwards the defender powered in a downward header which left Abbiati flat-footed but the ball flew narrowly wide.
As the two sides probed for the early breakthrough ex-Gunner Mathieu Flamini had a chance to show his former colleagues how it should be done.
Little magician: Samir Nasri bamboozles Mario Yepes
The Frenchman, better known for his hard-working defensive qualities during his time in north London, displayed some deft footwork to race through and fire a deflected 20-yarder against a post with Lukasz Fabianski beaten.
Moments later Flamini, harshly booed by a section of the crowd from the start, again danced his way into a shooting position and saw another worthy effort deflected wide.
Then Chamakh struck. In truth, the goal was set up for the new arrival by a thrilling run by Arshavin, but the way the lofty Moroccan timed his run, kept his cool and rolled the ball into the corner of the net augured well for the forthcoming season.
Arshavin almost doubled the lead after Chamakh had set him up, substitute Theo Walcott had a shot saved and it was against the run of play when Pato headed in Clarence Seedorf's free-kick in the 76th minute.
After substitute Mark Randall had wasted two chances to put Arsenal ahead again, Gianluca Zambrotta almost snatched victory for Milan with a late shot against the bar.
Typical frustrating Arsenal. But at least there's plenty of time to sort things out
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