Fabregas

Fabregas' Biggest Regret

Cesc Fabregas admits the biggest regret of his career will always be never lifting a trophy as Arsenal captain. The midfielder was welcomed by 30,000 Barcelona fans at the Nou Camp yesterday after he passed a medical and completed his £40million move.

Fab's signature on the five-year deal brought a close to one of the longest-running transfer sagas of recent seasons as Barca finally got their man after a three-year chase. And for the World Cup winner it completed a dream move back to his boyhood club. Fabregas was just 16 when he left Barca's academy to join Arsene Wenger's side in 2003. In an emotional Press conference at the Nou Camp, he admitted: "The biggest regret I will have in my career is I did not lift a trophy as Arsenal captain.

"More than just not winning trophies and medals, it was the routine fact of doing the same things over and again, trying to win and then always finding, one way or another, that we just didn't have enough to get over the finishing line. "We just didn't seem to have what it took in the final sprint for a trophy. But Arsenal are a great club and they will push on without me just like they did when Patrick Vieira and Thierry Henry left.

"The club is always bigger than the player and I am sure they will be strong again." Barca have paid £29m with add-ons of £6m and £5m in the future to take the total for the 24-year-old Spaniard to £40m. Fabregas admitted it was never a question of money after spending many, long painful hours talking over a move with Emirates boss Wenger.