Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood had said the club would
not sell prize asset Cesc Fabregas for £100 million.
The Gunners saw Alexander Hleb and Mathieu Flamini leave the
club in the summer and also feared the exit of Emmanuel
Adebayor.
One player not seriously linked with a move away was
Fabregas and Hill-Wood insists that even if Real Madrid or
Barcelona come with a bid worth almost double the current
world record.
"I don’t think for us to sell our best players for almost any
figure makes any commercial sense for us,” Hill-Wood told the
Sunday Telegraph.
“We don’t have to. If someone gave us £100m we’d have to pay 40
per cent tax on the damn thing and what the hell are we going to do
with the extra £60m?
"I’d rather have a couple of good players. We will resist any
overtures that are made for any of our star players.”