Barcelona have told Manchester United that Cesc Fabregas is not for
sale.
United confirmed on Monday that they had submitted an improved bid -
understood to be £30m plus add-ons for the midfielder – but reports Spain claim
that has been turned down.
“Fabregas is not for sale,” a Barcelona source said on Monday. “The
president (Sandro Rosell) has been very clear with Man United.”
When I first heard the news that United had bid for Fabregas I thought
it was a joke, but then it turned out to be serious which made it a much better
joke.
Yet I was amazed at how many football reporters were convinced that a
deal could be done and Fabregas would indeed be at Old Trafford next season, it
just beggars belief how they can get it so wrong with all the information available
to them.
Anyone with any interest in
football could have told you that having sold Thiago and with Xavi entering his
autumn years, football wise, Barcelona couldn’t afford to sell Fabregas, and
one of the reasons they brought him back was to eventually replace Xavi in midfield.
As the transfer window is still open for another six weeks you’d think
there wouldn’t be the need to waste everybody’s time reporting on United
bidding for Fabregas.
Although, inadvertently, having done so it has highlighted how desperate
United are, in that they are bidding for a player that they were never ever going to
get.
Moyes has only been in the job three weeks and already things aren’t
looking very good.
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