Puyol urges Arsenal to grant Fabregas wish
Carles Puyol has urged Arsenal Football Club to let Cesc Fabregas join Barcelona.
Former Camp Nou youngster Fabregas has revealed he wants to return to the Catalan club this summer, but Arsene Wenger is refusing to sell him.
However, current Barca star Puyol has asked the French tactician to rethink this stance, and allow his Emirates Stadium skipper the chance to return to the Spanish club.
And the defender has also told the Premier League club that even if they keep the midfielder this summer, they are merely delaying the inevitable.
"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 said in the Daily Star Sunday.
"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.
"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."
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