Fabregas focussed on winning trophy

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Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas has reiterated his desire to remain at the North London club, but hinted that a return to former club Barcelona could be beginning to appear on the horizon.The 22-year-old midfielder has made more than 160 league appearances for the Gunners since arriving from the Catalan side's youth ranks in 2003.

But he has long been linked with a big-money move back to the Camp Nou, with the European champions believed to have been weighing up an offer for his services during the close-season.

However, Fabregas has since insisted that his No.1 priority remains to finally win another trophy with the Gunners following their 2005 FA Cup triumph, but that he continues to hold a huge amount of admiration for the Spanish treble winners and their coach, Pep Guardiola.

“I know all about the speculation about Barcelona but you have to understand I am a professional and I am an Arsenal player," he told Goal.com UK

"We have made a good start and we can go on to do good things this season. As a youngster I admired Guardiola and Michael Laudrup at Barca. I learnt many things there, but it’s important to be yourself.

“You can never know what will happen in football, and it’s always an honour to be linked with a prestigious club like Barcelona, who I know all about. But let’s see how Arsenal does this season. I am sure we will win something soon.

“I am comfortable here and Arsene Wenger has helped me a lot and for that I will always respect him.

“I would like to win a major trophy again, but we will see.”

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Gregg Davies
Gregg Davies

Gregg Davies is the Chief Sub Editor of FourFourTwo magazine, joining the team in January 2008 and spending seven years working on the website. He supports non-league behemoths Hereford and commentates on Bulls matches for Radio Hereford FC. His passions include chocolate hobnobs and attempting to shoehorn Ronnie Radford into any office conversation.