Mr. Bean is going to play the same game SAF played with Real, only that SAF convinced Ronaldo to stay for one more season and ended up getting more money for him than any club has ever gotten for anyone else..
Arsene is asking for no less than 50M pounds for Cesc, Barca were willing to part with 30M pounds and Yaya Toure. Frankly I believe that Cesc is worth more than 30M pounds but Barca are looking at it from 2 points:
1. They bought Ibra for 40M pounds the previous season and are likely not to sell him this season, even with David Villa in the bag.
2. Cesc came from the youth ranks of Barca and even when (not if) he joins Barca (might be next season but 1), he is still not guaranteed starting line up with Xavi and Iniesta in the mix, same way he doesn't start for the Spain national team. Why would I pay 50M pounds to bench a player?
That said, it'll be interesting to see how the situation pans out because no one wants to keep a player who wants to leave but Arsene has no option but to make it painful for Barca to acquire Cesc! The jury is out on this one...
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