Wenger confident of keeping Fabregas

ARSENE WENGER sees no reason why captain Cesc Fabregas should not be at Arsenal for “many years”.

While Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson appears set to lose the services of disillusioned star striker Wayne Rooney sooner rather than later, Gunners boss Wenger intends to continue to fight tooth and nail to keep his talisman well past this season.

Fabregas, 23, was close to returning to his boyhood club Barcelona during the summer, only for Arsenal to stand firm as they rejected a £35 million (€39.5m) offer for the midfielder whom they have nurtured since he was 16.