Exclusive: Barcelona make final £30m offer for Emmanuel Adebayor

Barcelona have turned up the heat on Arsenal with a final £30m bid for Emmanuel Adebayor.

The Spanish giants have seen a £25m bid rejected by the Gunners, who may be willing to sell - but are holding out for the right deal.

Barca sporting vice-president Marc Ingla has been in London to try and negotiate with Arsenal.

But he flew home leaving them with the "take it or leave it" offer over striker Adebayor to try to force their hand.

AC Milan have already pulled out and claimed Chelsea are interested, but so far Barcelona are the only club to have tabled a realistic bid.

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger is fed-up with Adebayor, but in no rush to sell. Ideally, Wenger wants a big price - and a ready-made replacement lined up.

There is a will at the club to sell with Adebayor having alienated himself among Arsenal fans after demanding a £100,000-a-week contract because, he claims, he should be on what Thierry Henry earned.

Wenger is a huge admirer of Blackburn's Roque Santa Cruz and will be tempted to do a deal with Barcelona if he felt he could get the Paraguay striker.

Yet Arsenal are under no pressure to sell and are still in dialogue with Adebayor and his agent Stephane Courbis over a new deal.

The Togo international has three years left on the £40,000-a-week contract he signed last summer.