Barcelona confident of signing Fabregas this week

[emezico]

Barcelona are confident they will finally reach an agreement with Arsenal this week to secure the transfer of Cesc Fabregas.

Barcelona manager, Pep Guardiola, has run out of patience with the long-running transfer saga and told Barca president Sandro Rosell to meet Arsenal's £35million valuation to get the deal done.

Although Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger maintains he has no wish to sell the 24-year-old, the decision to allow ­Fabregas to leave the Emirates appears to have been taken out of his hands by the club's board of directors.

The player's closest friends in the Arsenal dressing room have felt for weeks he would move on this summer.