"Fabregas will stay with Arsenal"

Francis Cagigao, an Arsenal scout, believes that Cesc Fabregas will stay with the Gunners beyond this summer.

Cagigao recommended Fabregas to the north London club as part of his duties to scout out talent in Spain and Portugal, and was awed by the then 15-year-old midfield dynamo.

"All the fuss about Barcelona and Fabregas is simply an invention of the press, to engage in this type of speculation is absurd," he told the Daily Mail.

"Even when he was 15 I was captivated by his intelligence. He was mature which is hard to find in young players.

"It seems he has GPS in his head."

Fabregas has already gone on record to say that Barcelona boss Josep Guardiola was his childhood idol, and Cagigao believes Gunners boss Arsene Wenger operates in a similar fashion.

"I think the philosophies of Wenger and Guardiola are similar in shaping what they want on the field," he added.