Catalan sports paper El Mundo Deportivo claims that the money Barcelona will receive from the transfer of Ronaldinho will be directly invested in the transfer of Arsenal forward and Togo international Emmanuel Adebayor (24). The striker is still the favourite of manager Josep Guardiola to occupy the centre forward position and despite the better financial offer of Milan, Adebayor prefers to join Barcelona. Arsenal would have droped their asking to 30 million euro°.
Catalan sports paper Sport claims that Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger doesn't seem willing to accept the "Eto'o + 10 million euro" offer (read more here). The Frenchman considers the cash part to be not enough and has certain doubts on Eto'o.
British tabloid The Sunday Mirror meanwhile claims that Arsenal has not received a single firm offer for Adebayor this summer. Milan has pulled out of the race and after making a tentative enquiry five weeks ago Barcelona didn't come back with a concrete bid.
With no club willing to pay the transfer fee, there is at this moment a real possibility that Adebayor will be at Arsenal next season. The player now faces the prospect of starting next season in an Arsenal shirt and having to win over the fans who have been angered by his lack of loyalty.
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