As I wrote in the Inter thread:
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Originally posted by Minez01:
I cant believe you got hold of Fabregas?? How on earth did you pry him away from Arsenal?
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Well from the beginning of season 1 my main transfertarget were Fabregas.
I didn't manage to get a hold of him in my first season, as Arsenal flatly rejected all my offers and I just didn't have the money to get an offer accepted.
I've been praising him in the media all the time, too, but nothing seemed to work.
At the start of second season I was given 95 mio to spend and since I sold players for more than 40 mio too, I knew that I sooner or later would get an offer accepted.
However, Arsenal kept refusing offers and after they rejected my 60 mio offer I more or less gave up.
I then bid 100 mio just to see if that would make them change their mind, and it did. I had the offer accepted and immediately Fabregas came unhappy that his manager accepted an offer for him.
I then cancelled my offer and praised Fabregas and he became unsettled after a while, and then it was just a question of negotiations. I ended up paying 35 mio upfront, 13 over 12 months and a sell-on clause of 50%.