FABREGAS - HIGHLIGHTING HOW BARCELONA HAVE AN UGLY SIDE

Barcelona are the greatest club football team on earth.

Their play is beautiful and dazzling - as I witnessed first hand when they crushed Man United 3-1 at Wembley last month.

But they are no saints. Beneath the beauty likes a tough, sometimes cynical layer.

It sometimes is revealed on the pitch when some players (yes you Dani Alves and Busquets) go down as if they have been shot after a tackle - and when they confront the ref mob-handed.

It also has come to light in their current pursuit of Cesc Fabregas.

Their arrogance is breathtaking - they believe they should get special treatment simply because they are Barca...'more than just a club'??!!

They want Fabregas to sit on the bench until Xabi finally gets too old to continue. But they don't want to pay the appropriate fee for him - as they need to keep their limited transfer fund for Sanchez.

So their despicable president Sandro Rossell comes out with the usual crap - 'Cesc wants to come and is doing everything he can, but we don't think he is worth £35million'. Well, Mr Rossell, forget it, then! That is what I would say if I was Arsene Wenger or the Arsenal board.

Clearly, Rossell is manipulating the situation in the hope that Fabregas will force through the deal on Barca's terms. That he will say he will strike, he will not play, so that Arsenal have to sell.

Someone at the Emirates needs to tell this pumped-up little shit to either put up - or shut up. They think they're the world's biggest club - well, act like it then - pay the money that Fabregas is worth, even if you have to raise it by selling Villa...instead of playing little games...or crawl back under your stone and keep quiet.