Wenger wants an end to Cesc stories, Rosell understands

Manager Arsène Wenger has demanded an end to the speculative stories from the media about captain Cesc Fabregas.

The 22-year-old midfielder has been the subject of many a column inch, with the Catalan club expressing their interest in bringing their former youth player back to Spain.

But they have had their only transfer bid rejected, and have yet to come back with a better offer.

Instead, new president Sandro Rosell has conceded that with his club's poor financial position (Barcelona did not pay their players or staff in June, and have applied for a €150 million loan), they would be unable to match Arsenal's asking price for their captain.

In fact, Wenger reveals that him and Rosell had come to a common understanding about the situation, that perhaps being that Fabregas would never be for sale.

Wenger said: "There was a lot of unneeded talk. It is not pleasant to read this every day. Now, the story has to stop.

"Cesc is our captain, he is so important to us and we want to keep him, that is why we were not listening to any offers.

"It was not a problem of money, just the desire to keep him at the club.

"We can only influence our own behaviour, and I believe things have now gone straight again with Sandro Rosell. We always had a consistent attitude and were always reluctant to talk about Cesc's departure.

"It is very important we give the impression that because somebody wants a player from us, we don't just give in," he went on.

"We have shown our love and care for Cesc since the start. I believe Cesc loves the club, has shown his attachment to the club many times and I am very confident the story will end there. We want Cesc to be part of our club next year, and that is it.

"What we want is to build a team for the future, to develop our team and are not in any talks for next year or the year after - we want our players to be focused on the targets we have at the Club."

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