Gunners: no Barça bid for Fabregas

ARSENAL chairman Peter Hill-Wood has revealed Barcelona have assured the Gunners they will not table a bid for Cesc Fabregas this summer.

Speculation has long linked the Arsenal captain with a return to the Catalan club, where he spent several years as a youth player before moving to north London.

Barça star Lionel Messi yesterday said he believed it was just a matter of time before Fabregas returned to the Nou Camp as the Arsenal skipper “has Barcelona in his blood”, but Hill-Wood is convinced a deal is not in the pipeline as the Spanish champions are happy with their current crop of players.