Fabregas is the future of Barca – Puyol

(GSM) – Barcelona captain Carles Puyol has made it very clear Cesc Fabregas will join him at the Camp Nou.

The Arsenal midfielder is the subject of a long-running transfer saga with Barca desperate to add the Gunners skipper to their squad.

Fabregas has already expressed his wish to return to his Catalan roots but Arsenal remain reluctant to let their talismanic leader leave and have already spurned one sizeable approach for their captain.

This week reports came through the Emirates club will be able to block a move for another twelve months but Puyol is adamant that Fabregas will soon be back where he belongs.

“Cesc is a really nice guy and desperate to become a Barcelona player,” Puyol said in the Daily Star Sunday.

“But he is not the sort of player to be ruthless and start using the media to get him the move that he wants.

“There are many players who would try all sorts of tricks to make it impossible to ever play for Arsenal again but that is not his style.

“I think Arsenal need to respect his class and show the same class by giving the guy who has given so much to them the move that he and his family want.

“He isn’t just being deprived of moving to the best club in the world. More importantly, he is being deprived of coming home.

“He has tried everything to win trophies at Arsenal and when he sees the success so many of his Spanish team-mates are having at Barcelona, it’s only natural that he should want to be a part of that.”

Puyol played alongside Fabregas at this summer’s World Cup, as Spain delivered the trphy, and he is confident he will soon be lining up with the 23-year-old at club level as well.

He added: “He is the future of Barcelona and Arsenal can’t do anything to stop that. I have just spent six weeks with him and there is only one club he wants to be at.

“The worst-case scenario is that we have to wait another 12 months for him to join us – but Arsenal, Barcelona and Cesc know that is the very worst-case scenario.”