Hill-Wood rubbishes Fabregas reports
Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood has rubbished reports linking AC Milan with a move for captain Cesc Fabregas.
The 22-year-old midfielder, who has made 160 league appearances for the Gunners since arriving in 2003, has long been linked with a big-money move to former club Barcelona, as well as fellow la Liga giants Real Madrid.
However, according to a recent Tuttosport report, it is the Rossoneri - with Kaka having moved to Madrid and fellow midfielder Andrea Pirlo being tipped to join Chelsea - who were thought to be set to launch a €35 million swoop.
The report suggested that Milan vice president Adriano Galliani had an agreement in place with owner Silvio Berlusconi to move for the Spanish international, with the San Siro giants believed to be ready to offer Fabregas €4 million-per-season to leave North London for Italian shores.
However, Emirates Stadium chief Hill-Wood has now insisted that their skipper will be going nowhere.
"There is absolutely no chance of us selling Cesc and all this talk is just fabrication," he said.
"This sort of thing crops up from time to time and it is something we are perfectly used to.
"Cesc is happy at Arsenal, as far as I am aware."
Get FourFourTwo Newsletter
The best features, fun and footballing quizzes, straight to your inbox every week.
ARSENAL FANS! Check FourFourTwo.com’s ever-expandinginterviewsarchive for more stuff to read:
Web Exclusives Patrick Vieira, Cesc Fabregas
Q&A Theo Walcott, Cesc Fabregas
One on One Arsene Wenger, Thierry Henry, Ian Wright
Boy's A Bit Special Theo Walcott, Armand Traore
Perfect XI Ian Wright
What Happened Next? Gus Caesar, Peter Marinello
And Another Thing Being a Big Four fan
Plus! Rate Arsenal players (and others) on Talentspotter
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.
‘Arteta, Alonso, Emery, me… none of us were physical players – we needed the understanding of the game. That probably helped us move into management’: Premier League boss reveals reasons for natural career progression
‘England have the players to win the World Cup – it’ll be tough for Thomas Tuchel to do a bad job, with the squad he has at his disposal’ Former Three Lions winger backs new boss after gentle qualifying draw