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Fulham denied 37-year-old player transfer because they couldn't get £10m for him

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Fulham refused to sell Mark Schwarzer back in 2010 despite his dream of playing for Arsenal - slapping on a price-tag that he thinks "nobody in their right mind" would've paid.Schwarzer moved to west London in 2008 following an 11-year association with Middlesbrough, making 104 appearances across just two seasons - and helping them into the Europa League final in 2010.With Fulham suffering an agonising extra-time defeat against Atletico Madrid, Roy Hodgson left the club to join Liverpool, with Arsenal coming in for Schwarzer as Mark Hughes joined the club.The 49-year-old has now opened up about this burning desire to join Arsene Wenger at the Emirates, detailing how Fulham blocked the move with a huge asking price.Schwarzer, speaking exclusively to Ladbrokes at its launch of the 5-A-Side Bet on Leicester v West Ham, said: "My first conversation with Mark was very much, 'Hi, nice to meet you, I want to leave.' "He must have known there was an offer on the table and that I desperately wanted to go.

He just told me there was no offer, he knew nothing about it, and that the club wouldn't be letting anyone leave."I ended up meeting with Mohamed Al-Fayed in his office at Craven Cottage, and he told me that if Arsenal met the value the club believed I was worth, that I could go, and if they didn't pay it, I was stuck. 'What's the value?' I asked. '10 million pounds' he said."10 million pounds?

I was 37 years old! Nobody in their right mind was ever going to pay that for me.Should Fulham have let Mark Schwarzer join Arsenal?

Give us your thoughts in the comments section "I tried for the rest of that summer to come to some sort of agreement with Mr Al-Fayed and Mark Hughes, because I didn't want to lose such a big opportunity,.

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