So it's the end, then?

After Cesc Fabregas' statement on arsenal.com, widely reported across the world, one could be forgiven for thinking that the transfer saga has now ended.

Let's not expect too much.

As long as there are papers to be sold, tv viewers and radio listeners to be wooed and clicks to be harvested on the web, the Fabregas to Barcelona story will run and run... only now it will be about his transfer NEXT summer.

Wait and see.