<table style="width: 179px; height: 42px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="179" align="right" border="1">  <tbody>  <tr>  <td><img alt="" src="/imagedata/2011/feb/20cesc.jpg" border="0" /></td></tr>  <tr>  <td>  <p align="center"><span style="font-size: 8pt">Cesc Fabregas</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>Barcelona forward Lionel Messi hopes the Catalan club finally seal the capture of Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas this summer.<br /><br />Barca have tracked the Catalan midfielder for several seasons and had two big-money bids for their former youth team player turned down by the Gunners last summer.<br /><br />But Messi, who lost out to Fabregas and his Arsenal team-mates in the first leg of the teams' Champions League tie on Wednesday night, believes his friend will soon be a Barca player.<br /><br />"Let's hope so," he told Sport in an interview. "In the end he will do what he wants and what the people at Barca want. It doesn't depend on us, but I think his inclination is to be at Barcelona because there is nowhere he will be better off than here."<br /><br />Before the return leg against Arsenal, Barca play four important Primera Division matches, starting at home to Athletic Bilbao on Sunday. 

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Barcelona forward Lionel Messi hopes the Catalan club finally seal the capture of Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas this summer

Fabregas will be better off playing for Barca, says Messi

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