He and Barca fooled us.

He is only worth what someone is willing to pay, cliche i know but true.

It is mainly because barcelona were the only club he wanted to join.

rosell >> gazidis.

we got owned by smoother operators!

ye obvz

£45M would still have been too little. We should have asked for £60M.

We didn't sell him for 35M, we sold him for around 29m with add-ons.

He's worth at least 50M imo.

Of course he was underpriced. We should've held out for 50M for him. I think 60M is taking it a bit too far IMO.

i wouldn't have sold him for less than 60M.

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He's worth £60m IMO. But he forced a move, Barca were the only club he was willing to go to so we couldn't start a bidding war. People criticised us for selling him so late but Barca were offering even less before that.

True. As good as they are on the pitch, I have no respect whatsoever for the way the club seems to conduct itself off it. They seem to strut around on they're 'more than a club' unicef high horse, assuming that they have some sort of God-given right to remain constantly at the top and take other team's best players by means of tapping up whenever they feel like it. UEFA does nothing to help here either, don't want to risk upsetting their 'darlings'.

They are only doing to other clubs what they in turn do to smaller clubs, the big fish eat the little ones.

£60M is not too much, he is the best attacking playmaker in the world and is only 24 or something like that. Bale/Modric will go for £40M+ eventually and they don't have even close to half the ability he has.

Barca were the only club who he would go to and they refused to pay more. If Real thought they could get him it could have started a bidding war.

Of course he was under-priced. I think everybody knows that and has done since the deal happened.

Everybody also knows why.
Cesc wanted to join Barca, Barca wanted him, and Wenger wanted to repay Cescs earlier loyalty.

If the board had their way we would have held out for a lot more, but Wenger took on a fatherly role and persuaded them to let Cesc go.


Also, Carroll was massively overpriced by any market standards. Liverpool had £50 million to spend and Newcastle knew it. I am sure both sides knew £35 million was not a fair and normal price, but both were happy with it.


You could easily argue the likes of Adebayor, Clichy and Nasri all were over-priced as well.

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Arsenal got Ripped of big time with Cesc, they should have Manned up and made sure they got 50m for him.

I don't think we could do any more about it. If you think it was a matter of having the balls to ask for more you clearly don't understand how the situation was - Barcelona simply didn't have the money after the purchase of Sanchez

well if Barca didnt have the money then they shouldnt have been aloud to have him simple as that,Barca see Arsenal coming.

£60M is not too much, he is the best attacking playmaker in the world and is only 24 or something like that. Bale/Modric will go for £40M+ eventually and they don't have even close to half the ability he has.
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Well,if you base it on talent, hell yeah, but the guy was just injured too damn much. If he stayed fully fit he could've gone for 70M imo (if Kaka can go for 65M ). Like Henry. The only reason he went for a paltry 16 million is because he was injured for most of his last season with us.

It was a right royal farce.
Arsenal bent over and took it up the guinnel

This is why Wenger needs help in sorting out transfers as a Chief Exec, Director of Football, bascially David Dein would have said Cesc you can go but only if Barca pay what we feel you are worth. The price we got for him is border line criminal.

Not sure how some people could think Clichy (£7m, mid 20s fullback with huge amount of experience at the highest level in club football); Nasri (£20m for a early 20s creative midfielder who has a long career ahead of him and had just had the best season of his career) and Adeybayor (£25m fo a striker who by his mid 20s was already a proven striker in the Premier League who has that rare ability of being able to play upfront on his own or as a duo). To be honest if City did not have the money to buy a new player every 5 minutes then we would have seen Adebayor flourishing at City.

For me I don't think you could have put a price on Cesc but as we knew he would only get better (where as Ronaldo went for £80m had peaked), but asking for money around the value of a record transfer would not have been out of place. Somone's value is based on his own ability, value to his current club and what he would bring to his new club and with that Cesc was priceless.