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Barcelona director Javier Bordas confirms Arsenal will not budge on Cesc Fabregas sale
Executive fails to confirm Sandro Rosell's journey to London...
21 Jul 2010 14:55:00
By Matt Monaghan
Barcelona director Javier Bordas has admitted the club are closing the battle to prise Cesc Fabregas from Arsenal.
Fabregas, 23, has been at the centre of a tug of war this summer after the Gunners rejected a £29 million bid from Barca for the Spain World Cup 2010 winner. While Cesc is understood to be keen to make the move, Arsenal refused to sanction a sale.
Speaking to Eurosport at the start of the Spanish Football Federation Assembly in Madrid, Bordas confirmed the European heavyweights were at loggerheads about the transfer and was evasive about the rumoured trip president Sandro Rosell was planning to make to London.
He said: "It's an issue for the technical secretary. The thing that is missing is Arsenal must want to sell. At the moment they do not. I do not know if the president [Sandro Rosell] is scheduled to travel to London.
"It seems that it's not a problem of numbers, but that Arsenal do not want to sell. Arsenal is very reluctant to sell."
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Fabregas, 23, has been at the centre of a tug of war this summer after the Gunners rejected a £29 million bid from Barca for the Spain World Cup 2010 winner. While Cesc is understood to be keen to make the move, Arsenal refused to sanction a sale.
Speaking to Eurosport at the start of the Spanish Football Federation Assembly in Madrid, Bordas confirmed the European heavyweights were at loggerheads about the transfer and was evasive about the rumoured trip president Sandro Rosell was planning to make to London.
He said: "It's an issue for the technical secretary. The thing that is missing is Arsenal must want to sell. At the moment they do not. I do not know if the president [Sandro Rosell] is scheduled to travel to London.
"It seems that it's not a problem of numbers, but that Arsenal do not want to sell. Arsenal is very reluctant to sell."
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