“No chance” of Cesc leaving - Wenger

By NIGEL BENSON

Arsene Wenger has moved to dismiss rumours linking Arsenal captain and playmaker Cesc Fabregas with a return to Barcelona in his native Spain.
“No chance,” Wenger said before the opening day 6-1 demolition of Everton.
“Do you really think we’ll sell our players one day before the Premier League starts? Players
who are basic players of the team? There is no chance,” he said.
“You cannot stop people from having a lot of creative imagination during their sleepness
nights, but that doesn’t mean we will do it.”
A report in Spanish newspaper El Mundo Deportivo has had the British tabloids speculating
this week that a deal has already been done for Fabregas, who learnt his football in the youth
section at the Nou Camp and joined Arsenal in 2003.
El Mundo Deportivo claimed Fabregas would make the move to Barcelona if The Gunners
failed to qualify for the Champions League group stage.
But after the emphatic 2-0 win over Celtic in the first leg this week, Arsenal now have one
foot firmly planted in the group stages draw, which will be held on August 27 in Monaco.
Barca would now wait until next summer to sign the Spain star, the newspaper claimed.
A fee of between 32 and 35 million euros has, reportedly, been agreed on which, from this
(admittedly-biased) Arsenal fan’s perspective is laughable after Cristiano Ronaldo’s 80 million
transfer to Real Madrid.
But, Wenger was having none of it.
“I believe that in life you are committed to clubs with contracts,” he said.
“And in no contract is the colour of your blood described. A man is always defined by the way
he is committed to his contracts and that has nothing to do with the blood you have.”
The Arsenal skipper’s father, Francesc Fabregas, has also dismissed rumours of his
imminent return to Spain.
“Honestly, I think this signing by Barca will not be produced,” he told Spanish radio last
week.
” think Cesc will stay at Arsenal. He is super committed to Arsenal and he is really eager
to do things there. If the day comes then it will come, but as a professional and out of respect
for Arsenal, where he has always been very well treated, he cannot say anything about these
rumours,” he said.
“Cesc is Catalan and a cule and, obviously, he takes that with him all the time. But, he gives
it all for Arsenal, regardless of that feeling.”