http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14482418.stm Arsenal's Cesc Fabregas on verge of Barcelona move By Dan Roan BBC sports news correspondent Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas is close to signing for European champions Barcelona for a fee believed to be about 35m. The transfer, one of the most protracted in Premier League history, is yet to be completed but Arsenal expect it to be done by the weekend. According to a senior source at the club, all the funds generated by the sale will be reinvested in new players. The Gunners have been linked with Scott Dann, Phil Jagielka and Gary Cahill. Gunners boss Arsene Wenger looks intent on strengthening his defence and reports have suggested centre-backs Dann of Birmingham, Everton's Jagielka and Cahill of Bolton could be targets. Fabregas, 24, would be unable to feature for Barcelona in the Champions League if he plays a part in Arsenal's match with Udinese on Tuesday, motivating both clubs to complete a deal before that game. The BBC understands a fee of 30m, plus over 5m of additional performance-related payments, is close to being reached for Fabregas. It is believed that, if he is sold, the Spaniard will be due 4m in compensation - 1m for each year of his contract he did not complete - but may be prepared to forego that payment in order to facilitate a deal. Negotiations have been conducted by Barcelona's Vice-President Josep Maria Bartomeu and is believed to be a final take-it-or-leave-it offer, leaving Arsenal having to sell one of the major assets or keep a player who has his heart set on a move. The transfer fee is significantly less than the 40m that Arsenal had been holding out for and suggests that the Gunners felt they had no choice but to sell a player who wanted to leave. Fabregas, who has 58 caps for Spain, joined Arsenal from the Catalan giants in 2003 and, since making his name in north London, has been persistently linked with a return to his boyhood club. Wenger will now turn his attention to keeping Samir Nasri at the club, who has refused to sign a new deal at the Emirates amid speculation of interest from Manchester City. If the Fabregas deal goes through as expected, he will become Barcelona's second major signing of the summer following their 23m purchase of Chilean forward Alexis Sanchez. -- Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/aug/10/fabregas-nasri-arsenal-exits Negotiations are ongoing, with Arsenal yet to accept any deal formally. Yet Barca have received encouragement that a package worth an initial €29m (25.4m) – with a further payment of around €6m (5.3m) linked to future appearances and honours still under discussion – will now prove sufficient to sign the player. A similarly structured deal had, to all intents and purposes, been on the table for some time, though key to Arsenal's recent shift in stance appears to have been Fabregas's further willingness to re-direct around €5m (4.4m) from his prospective earnings at the Catalan club directly to his former side. That figure would equate to a proportion of his wages over the course of a fiveyear contract and would help inflate the overall size of the deal, allowing Arsenal scope to compromise from their initial demands of nearer 40m. Fabregas, who has never formally asked for a transfer but had nevertheless made clear his desire to return to his boyhood club, has cut an isolated figure at Arsenal in pre-season. -- Independent http://ind.pn/pV0Rpm Although it has been suggested that Fabregas will take a pay cut in his 120,000-a-week wages, the reality is that the player will simply accept a lower offer from Barcelona than the improvement on his existing deal that he could have earned by signing a new contract at Arsenal. Sport.es http://bit.ly/o4Gu0H -- Pique & Busquets both suffered injuries during friendly versus Italy and are doubtful for the 1st leg of supercopa match against Madrid --

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