{"id":466782,"date":"2011-07-23T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/23\/no-progress-on-pursuit-of-arsenals-cesc-fabregas-admits-barcelona-coach-pep-guardiola\/"},"modified":"2011-07-23T16:38:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T16:38:00","slug":"no-progress-on-pursuit-of-arsenals-cesc-fabregas-admits-barcelona-coach-pep-guardiola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/23\/no-progress-on-pursuit-of-arsenals-cesc-fabregas-admits-barcelona-coach-pep-guardiola\/","title":{"rendered":"No progress on pursuit of Arsenal&#8217;s Cesc Fabregas, admits Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"50.3455497382\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/spain\/125\/barcelona\">Barcelona<\/a> coach <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/spain\/3147\/pep-guardiola\">Pep Guardiola<\/a> has admitted at a pre-match press conference that there have been no further developments in the club&#8217;s move for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/94\/arsenal\">Arsenal<\/a> midfielder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/spain\/2840\/cesc-f%C3%A0bregas\">Cesc Fabregas<\/a>.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span readability=\"30.325106383\"><br \/>In what has become one of the summer&#8217;s longest-running transfer sagas, <strong>Goal.com<\/strong> revealed on Friday that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/9\/england\/2011\/07\/22\/2585721\/arsenal-and-barcelona-to-resume-talks-over-cesc-fabregas\">more talks were in the offing between the English outfit and the European champions, after initial discussions had fizzled out.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Asked on Saturday about the possible signing of the 24-year-old midfielder, Guardiola said: &#8220;There is nothing new with Cesc.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Catalan side will begin their pre-season friendly campaign on Saturday night with a test in Eastern Europe against Croatian runners-up Hajduk Split, and the Barca coach, although disappointed to see his stellar quartet of Xavi, Gerard Pique, Carles Puyol and Pedro absent, emphasised the need to perform well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to give the best image possible against Hajduk,&#8221; he said. &#8220;As a coach, I would want them all included, but unfortunately I cannot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola also praised youngster Bojan Krkic, who has departed for pastures new at Roma, and Oriol Romeu, who is set to complete a transfer to Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to thank Bojan for all he has done over the years and I wish him well,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In regards to Romeu, the opportunity at Chelsea is a very good one for him, but Barcelona will control negotiations.&#8221;<br \/><span><br \/><span><span><span><span><span><span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the rest here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/07\/23\/2587602\/no-progress-on-pursuit-of-arsenals-cesc-fabregas-admits\" title=\"No progress on pursuit of Arsenal's Cesc Fabregas, admits Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No progress on pursuit of Arsenal&#8217;s Cesc Fabregas, admits Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola has admitted at a pre-match press conference that there have been no further developments in the club&#8217;s move for Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas . In what has become one of the summer&#8217;s longest-running transfer sagas, Goal.com revealed on Friday that more talks were in the offing between the English outfit and the European champions, after initial discussions had fizzled out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>No progress on pursuit of Arsenal&#039;s Cesc Fabregas, admits Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/23\/no-progress-on-pursuit-of-arsenals-cesc-fabregas-admits-barcelona-coach-pep-guardiola\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"No progress on pursuit of Arsenal&#039;s Cesc Fabregas, admits Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola has admitted at a pre-match press conference that there have been no further developments in the club&#039;s move for Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas . 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