Manchester United plan final bid to force Cesc Fabregas' transfer through
Prospect of Barcelona star buying himself out of his
contract as a way of not giving Arsenal first option to re-sign him also
looms
David Ramos
Manchester United will make one final ‘take it or leave it’ offer for Cesc Fabregas.
Champions United's new boss, David Moyes, is hammering out the details on a third bid for the Spain international that will rise beyond £35m with add-ons, and it is likely to be submitted before the end of the week.
But Barcelona have indicated they will be forced to turn down any offer from the English club, because of the fiendishly complicated clauses agreed when they bought the player from Arsenal in 2011.
Instead, the Spanish giants are considering allowing Fabregas to buy out his own contract for a set fee - which would circumvent an agreement made with the Gunners that gives them the option to re-sign the player for £25m should Barca agree to sell him to any other club.
That buy-out figure though, is likely to be set at £48m, which leaves United a long way short of what the club has indicated will be their final offer for the former Arsenal man.
Fabregas remains Moyes’ number one summer target, and the player himself has fanned the flames of speculation by so far refusing to commit his future to Barcelona, after being asked about United’s interest.
Friends of the player have suggested he would like to come back to the Premier League, but it is Arsenal’s contractual opportunity to sign him for £25m - if Barca agree to sell him - that is making the situation so complicated.
The money-men at the Nou Camp are almost paranoid about the agreement they offered to the Gunners.
Essentially, it gives Arsenal the right to buy the 26-year-old for less than the fee they received for him, should he be put on the market.
That is why Barca are only prepared to do a deal if the midfielder buys out his contract - for a sum which is actually much less than the compensation figure of 200m euros widely reported when he made the switch from the Emirates two summers ago.
In fact, Barca would allow him to buy out the contract at around 55m euros, which equates to a fee of around £48m... and conveniently wouldn’t trigger Arsenal’s clause.
Although he is prepared to smash United’s club record transfer fee - set when they paid Spurs £30.8m for Dimitar Berbatov in 2008 - Moyes would baulk at such a price,
It leaves the new United boss with a second major headache as the season fast approaches, as the future of Wayne Rooney is still up in the air with the England star maintaining he would prefer a move away from Old Trafford.
Moyes will sit down with the striker before the end of the week in an attempt to resolve the differences he has with the club, but it is thought Rooney still wants a public admission from now-retired manager Sir Alex Ferguson that no transfer request was submitted at the end of last season
Champions United's new boss, David Moyes, is hammering out the details on a third bid for the Spain international that will rise beyond £35m with add-ons, and it is likely to be submitted before the end of the week.
But Barcelona have indicated they will be forced to turn down any offer from the English club, because of the fiendishly complicated clauses agreed when they bought the player from Arsenal in 2011.
Instead, the Spanish giants are considering allowing Fabregas to buy out his own contract for a set fee - which would circumvent an agreement made with the Gunners that gives them the option to re-sign the player for £25m should Barca agree to sell him to any other club.
That buy-out figure though, is likely to be set at £48m, which leaves United a long way short of what the club has indicated will be their final offer for the former Arsenal man.
Fabregas remains Moyes’ number one summer target, and the player himself has fanned the flames of speculation by so far refusing to commit his future to Barcelona, after being asked about United’s interest.
Friends of the player have suggested he would like to come back to the Premier League, but it is Arsenal’s contractual opportunity to sign him for £25m - if Barca agree to sell him - that is making the situation so complicated.
The money-men at the Nou Camp are almost paranoid about the agreement they offered to the Gunners.
Essentially, it gives Arsenal the right to buy the 26-year-old for less than the fee they received for him, should he be put on the market.
That is why Barca are only prepared to do a deal if the midfielder buys out his contract - for a sum which is actually much less than the compensation figure of 200m euros widely reported when he made the switch from the Emirates two summers ago.
In fact, Barca would allow him to buy out the contract at around 55m euros, which equates to a fee of around £48m... and conveniently wouldn’t trigger Arsenal’s clause.
Although he is prepared to smash United’s club record transfer fee - set when they paid Spurs £30.8m for Dimitar Berbatov in 2008 - Moyes would baulk at such a price,
It leaves the new United boss with a second major headache as the season fast approaches, as the future of Wayne Rooney is still up in the air with the England star maintaining he would prefer a move away from Old Trafford.
Moyes will sit down with the striker before the end of the week in an attempt to resolve the differences he has with the club, but it is thought Rooney still wants a public admission from now-retired manager Sir Alex Ferguson that no transfer request was submitted at the end of last season
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