Cesc Fabregas ready to talk tough with Arsenal

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Can Capello solve the Rooney riddle?
Published 5/28/2008 by Ronaldo Assis de Moreira at 101 Great Goals - latest football videos and international soccer goals from the Premier League, Champions League,La liga, Serie A, World Cup, UEFA Cup and more
... Also in the Telegraph, Wayne Vesey suggests Cesc Fabregas may be on a collision course with the Arsenal board, partly due to his agent - Darren Dein. “The midfielder’s existing agreement, which has annual increments built in, is believed to be worth around £60,000 per week, which leaves him short of the club’s top earners, William Gallas and Arsene Wenger, the manager, who earn salaries of £4 million. Fabregas and his advisers are seeking a new deal that will replace the terms of his existing agreement. Although Arsenal have a strict wage ...

Barcelona claim to have reached agreement with Hleb
Published 5/28/2008 by blogger@arseblog.com (Arseblogger) at Arseblog
... €20m for Hleb. Honestly, if they offer €20m for him that's a great bit of business. And I wonder if a Guardiola managed Barcelona might suit Hleb better than a Mourinho managed Inter. Anyway, we'll see what happens but on the same day that United are reporting Real to FIFA for the way they've shamelessly pursued Ronaldo it just shows you the same thing is happening to us, although I think we'd be much more annoyed about it if it were someone like Cesc and not Hleb. Speaking of Cesc the Telegraph says the club are bracing themselves for tough contract negotiations with the ...

Money and contract becoming an issue for yet another Arsenal midfielder
Published 5/28/2008 by Dexter at CaughtOffside.com
... asking for a ‘little chat’ is Cesc Fabregas, the jewel in Arsenal’s crown. The Telegraph reports that the Spaniard, armed with new agent Darren Dein (no prizes for guessing whose son he is) is ready to discuss the contract extension that Arsenal are so desperate for him to sign. Unfortunately for the Gunners, Dein Jr is the man who negotiated Thierry Henry’s lucrative final contract, earning the Frenchman the equivalent of £200,000 (doubters and pedants click here) a week. And to make matters worse, Papa Dein is not only on bad terms with the Arsenal ...