Cesc wants respect from Barca

Fabregas unhappy over transfer speculation

Last updated: 25th June 2008

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Cesc Fabregas has told Barcelona to show more respect to Arsenal over their interest in a number of the Gunners' star men.

Alexander Hleb and Emmanuel Adebayor are just two of the players to have been linked with a summer switch to Camp Nou.

And Fabregas, who signed for Arsene Wenger's side from the Catalan giants as a 16-year-old, feels that conducting transfer business in public can only serve to unsettle the players.

No need

He told Catalunya Radio: "A club like Barca should show a bit more respect to the intimacy of a club like Arsenal that never make a lot of noise (over transfers) and who always try to do things properly.

"In the last few weeks it's come out that Barca are in for at least seven Arsenal players and there's no need for that.

"These things cause doubts in the mind of the players and unsettle us.

"Arsenal do things differently, always in secret, and that's much more normal.

"They shouldn't do things so that everybody knows about it. If the player wants to go he'll go anyway."

Future

Fabregas, who upset Barcelona when he joined Arsenal as a 16-year-old in 2003, revealed that he had spoken to his team-mates about the speculation and said he would support them whatever their decision.

"I've spoken to one of the players who's being spoken about, he's a friend of mine and I've wished him all the best if he stays or if he goes," he added.

"Hleb and Adebayor should do the best for their future and to be happiest, but I'd like them to stay at Arsenal."