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by Walter Broeckx
If anyone still had any idea on what Fifa stands for and on how Fifa is looking at it’s job to see if all the clubs do the things according the rules we know now.
Yesterday on Fifa.com this article appeared and I will copy it like it was written.
Xavi confident over Fabregas
(PA) Wednesday 21 July 2010
Barcelona midfielder Xavi believes Arsenal are merely “delaying the inevitable” by preventing Cesc Fabregas from joining the Spanish champions.
Fabregas was the subject of a reported £30m approach by the Catalan club prior to the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ but the Gunners are reluctant to part with their prize asset, who has five years left on his current contract.
Arsenal appeared to gain the upper hand in the protracted saga when Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola conceded on Monday that the north London club would have the final say on the 23-year-old’s future. But Xavi, a member of Spain’s victorious FIFA World Cup squad alongside Fabregas, is confident a deal will be reached to take the former Barcelona trainee back to the Nou Camp – be it this summer or next.
“We know where Cesc wants to be this coming season, but perhaps there is not enough time for Barcelona and Arsenal to agree a deal,” Xavi told the Daily Express. “Arsenal need to understand they are only delaying the inevitable.
“If we don’t manage to get his signature this season then Arsenal only really have him on loan for a year – because there is nothing they can do to stop him joining next summer.
“I haven’t given up on him joining us this season but, if he doesn’t, it won’t be more than a year before he is back home. His people will have a whole season to sort out the deal between the two clubs and it will happen at the very latest next summer.”
Xavi claims Fabregas told his international team-mates he was keen on joining Barcelona while on FIFA World Cup duty. “We were all with him for five weeks in South Africa and we know he wants to be at Barcelona, he made it very clear,” Xavi added.
“But he will under no circumstances do anything that will upset the Arsenal fans. And that’s probably why we are going to have to wait for him for another year.”
This article came on their news site. Now we call all argue a bit on the notion what “news” is but this had nothing to do with news. News would be : “Eduardo signs a deal with Shakhtar Donetsk”. This is news.
The fact that a Barceloanus player tells that they want Cesc to come over to Barcelona is not news. It is tapping up a player. And we all know that Fifa have made rules against tapping up players. But does Fifa act? No they throw extra fuel in the fire. They publish articles in which they give credit to Barceloanus players to help the tapping up of Cesc. And believe me this is not the first article on Fifa.com about the tapping up of Cesc. There still are articles on the site with Rossel talking about Cesc coming to them.
Fifa is by publishing articles like this helping Barceloanus in making a gap between Cesc and the Arsenal fans. I have warned for it before : Cesc will not leave for money but if he feels that the fans don’t like him anymore at Arsenal he really will want to go to Barcloanus. So Fifa is an accomplice in helping Barcelona to get Cesc out of the Emirates.
Fifa who should be telling Barceloanus : Now wait a minute you. Arsenal have turned down your offer. Cesc has still 5 years on his contract. Arsenal have made it public that Cesc will not leave and that they will not sell. They have made a public statement on this on their website and told this to the whole world (including Fifa). So Barceloanus you must tell your players, your board and all who are member of your club that they should stop speaking about Cesc coming to Barcelona this season or next season. As far as my calculations are right 5 years from now means that next summer he still will have 4 years left on his contract and I don’t know if Fifa thinks otherwise but this still is very much under contract in the part of the world I live in.
So for those who still believed in Fifa as a trustful and honourable organization, you can think otherwise. They will do nothing to help Arsenal but are very willing to spread more rumours about Cesc going to Barcelona and to divide the Arsenal fans on this.
But thanks to the reaction of some Arsenal fans and a very strong article on Goonerholic (credit for this to them) all of a sudden the article was taken of the Fifa website. Thanks to someone attentive I have the article copied to my computer before this happened. Just the fact that Fifa removed the article from their website confirmed that they are doing wrong in this. And who knows maybe they start thinking a bit about this and who knows maybe they will act and talk to Barceloanus about this. I still doubt they will do this as they usually are an organisation that knows no shame.
But for me they have lost the last bit of respect that I had for them. I think they are a despicable organisation. The only way they can gain back some credibility is by an open apology to Arsenal and their fans for them not action according to their own rules. An open apology for not warning Barceloanus to stop tapping up Cesc. An apology to all football fans over the world for not applying their own rules and punish Barceloanus.
This is the only way Fifa can have some credibility in the future for me. But I won’t be holding my breath to see those apologies appear on the Fifa.com website. And if they do, I will love to acknowledge this on this website. But I don’t think you have to stay up to wait for this to happen.
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