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Originally Posted by Danthomas2005
But Arsenal still had to pay to get him.. He wouldn't have joined otherwise..
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Actually he would have. It wasn't until a year later that we had to pay the money because the courts said we had too due to him receiving introduction through Barca.
The money paid for Cesc had nothing to do with the player and more to do with Barca being bitter a year later when he was playing for us. Had Cesc been a failure they wouldn't have been worried about getting anything. Originally Barca were wanting the courts to award them £11M.