Cesc Fabregas will not request to going to Barcelona.

Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas insists he will not force a move to La Liga giants Barcelona.

Speculation has been afire over Fabregas' future this summer, especially with the 24-year-old making no secret of his desire to one day return to the Nou Camp.

Arsenal team-mate Bacary Sagna further fanned the flames on Tuesday by declaring that he was aware of Fabregas' wish to join Barcelona this summer.

However, the Spanish international has now come out and insisted that he will not hand in a transfer request.

"I am an Arsenal player," Fabregas said, according to The Guardian.

"I have been very happy for eight years and I am very happy. I am not thinking about football now, just about my holidays."

Still, Fabregas refused to definitely rule out a move away from the Emirates Stadium.

"I am not going to talk about any team - but I can't say no to anyone because you never know what could happen in the future.

"I have values and after all I have done in eight years here, I am not going to say a word that would ruin everything. I have always acted with discretion.

"Everyone sees things in a different way but these decisions, not everything depends on the player.

"If I said anything else it would be a lie, it would give rise to speculation that is not true."

Fabregas did admit that winning titles remains at the forefront of his ambitions, and conceded that moving to Barcelona would offer him an excellent shot at silverware.

"Barcelona are the best team in the world and going there guarantees titles. But I owe myself to Arsenal."

Fabregas, who won both Euro 2008 and the 2010 FIFA World Cup with Spain admits to being frustrated at the lack of success in the past few seasons at the Emirates Stadium.

"Any player who says he is not frustrated at not winning titles is lying.

"There is a good team and a good manager and one of the most faithful fan bases in Europe. With those I believe we can make progress and one day win an important trophy.

"I am ambitious. [But] I have not spoken to the manager.

"He is the boss, he makes decisions and I don't know if they want to sell me or not."

While Fabregas has stopped short of out rightly declaring he wants a transfer to Barcelona, the lack of a statement of his desire to stay is bound to worry all involved at Arsenal.

Fabregas has made over 300 appearances for Arsenal, but only has an FA Cup final victory in 2005 to show for his time at the Emirates, although he was unlucky to miss out on the UEFA Champions League the following year.

Guus Hiddink unmoved over the Chelsea job

Guus Hiddink's agent insisted on Wednesday the Dutchman would not quit as Turkey manager to take over at Chelsea, despite the resignation of the man who appointed him.

But Cees van Nieuwenhuizen admitted he was unable to say for certain whether Hiddink would snub the Blues if they reached an agreement with the Turkish Football Federation to release him from his contract.

Yesterday saw TFF president Mahmut Ozgener announce he would not stand for another term in office, a decision which fuelled speculation over Hiddink's position.

Ozgener has been a staunch ally of the 64-year-old but the former's impending departure will diminish any say he has if Chelsea decide to test the TFF's resolve to keep Hiddink.

Hiddink is renowned for not breaking contracts but Van Nieuwenhuizen was uncertain whether his client would consider being bought out of the final year of it as the same as a breach.

"I really have no idea," Van Nieuwenhuizen told Press Association Sport, insisting Ozgener's announcement had "not had any effect" on Hiddink's own position.

He added: "The contract is with the Turkish Football Federation and not the individual president."

Asked if Hiddink was concerned or upset about Ozgener's departure, Van Nieuwenhuizen said: "Guus is somebody who can accept the facts of life."

Chelsea chief executive Ron Gourlay yesterday refused to comment on reports Hiddink is the club's number one target as he visited Hong Kong ahead of their pre-season tour of Asia.

He did reveal, however, that he hoped to make an appointment within the next fortnight.

Van Nieuwenhuizen maintained today there had been no formal contact between Hiddink - who is also currently in Asia - and the Blues over the vacancy.

Transfer Tracker in TEAMtalk's

Check out TEAMtalk's record of which players have been linked with which clubs in the Premier League so far this summer.

It can be hard keeping up with all of the transfer speculation through the summer transfer window, but we're here to make your life easier.

We're keeping a list of all the signings in the Premier League - and we'll add in every rumour we report too.

We even have profile pages for the players - click on a name down the right to read their stats from last season, plus all the latest news and speculation concerning them.

ARSENAL

Rumours: Gervinho, Keisuke Honda, Bojan Krkic, Chris Samba, Charles N'Zogbia, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Romelu Lukaku, Falcao, Karim Benzema, Gervinho, Phil Jones, Gary Cahill, Eden Hazard, Scott Parker, Peter Odemwingie, Axel Witsel

Done Deals: Carl Jenkinson (Charlton, undisclosed fee)

ASTON VILLA

Rumours: Ben Foster, Scott Dann, Wayne Bridge

Done Deals:

BLACKBURN

Rumours: Cedric Hengbart, Benjani, Jermaine Jones, Seb Larsson, Vicente, Derek Riordan, Matt Mills

Done Deals:

BOLTON

Rumours: Beram Kayal, Daniel Sturridge, Darren Pratley, DJ Campbell, Bradley Johnson, Matt Mills

Done Deals:

CHELSEA:

Rumours: Diego Godin, Javier Pastore, Romelu Lukaku, Luka Modric, Sergio Aguero, Neymar, Kaka, Peter Odemwingie, Wesley Sneijder

Done Deals:

EVERTON

Rumours: Gervinho, Craig Mackail-Smith, Joey Barton, Jay Bothroyd, David Vaughan, Miroslav Klose (signed for Lazio), Chris Brunt, Dedryck Boyata, Shane Long

Done Deals:

FULHAM

Rumours: Kevin Strootman, Daniel Osvaldo, DJ Campbell, Felipe Menezes, Victor Obinna, Csaba Somogyi

Done Deals: Dan Burn (Darlington, undisclosed)

LIVERPOOL

Rumours: Keisuke Honda, Bojan Krkic, Alexander Doni, Scott Parker, James McCarthy, Romelu Lukaku, Stewart Downing, Phil Jones, Gervinho, Fabio Coentrao, Jordan Henderson, Charles N'Zogbia, Charlie Adam, Jose Enrique, Connor Wickham, Axel Witsel, Chris Brunt, Matias Silvestre

Done Deals: Jordan Henderson (Sunderland, £16m rising to £20m)

MANCHESTER CITY

Rumours: Javier Pastore, Romelu Lukaku, Phil Jones, Fabio Coentrao, Alexis Sanchez, Wesley Sneijder, Sergio Aguero

Done Deals:

MANCHESTER UNITED

Rumours: Mesut Ozil, Phil Jones, Shinji Kagawa, Luka Modric, Nikica Jelavic, Ashley Young, David De Gea, Jack Rodwell, Wesley Sneijder, Samir Nasri

Done Deals: Phil Jones (Blackburn, £16.5m)

NEWCASTLE

Rumours: Cedric Hengbart, Charles N'Zogbia, Seb Larsson, Gervinho, Karl Henry, Achille Emana, Demba Ba, Pierre Webo, Neil Taylor, Craig Gardner, Shane Long

Done Deals: Mehdi Abeid (Lens, free), Yohan Cabaye (Lille, undisclosed)

NORWICH

Rumours: Jimmy Bullard, Craig Mackail-Smith, Miroslav Klose (signed for Lazio), Robert Snodgrass, Bradley Johnson

Done Deals: James Vaughan (Everton, £2.5m), Steve Morison (Millwall, undisclosed)

QPR

Rumours: Cedric Hengbart, Lucas Neill, Craig Mackail-Smith, DJ Campbell, Danny Graham, Joe Cole, Ashley Williams, Matt Mills

Done Deals:

STOKE

Rumours: Youssef El-Arabi, Cedric Hengbart, Charles Kabore, Liam Ridgewell, Cameron Jerome, Sebastien Bassong, Christian Poulsen, Erik Huseklepp, Seb Larsson, Carlton Cole, Bradley Johnson, Victor Obinna, Matt Mills

Done Deals:

SUNDERLAND

Rumours: Peter Crouch, Wes Brown, John O'Shea, Darron Gibson, Keiren Westwood, David N'Gog, Charles N'Zogbia, Seb Larsson, David Vaughan, DJ Campbell, Pierre Webo, Demba Ba, Craig Gardner, Ji Dong-won

Done Deals: Ahmed Elmohamady (ENPPI, undisclosed)

SWANSEA

Rumours: Marcos Senna, Steven Caulker, Fabio Borini

Done Deals: Danny Graham (Watford, £3.5m)

TOTTENHAM

Rumours: Asamoah Gyan, Abel Hernandez, Ryan Shawcross, Scott Parker, Romelu Lukaku, Phil Jones, Falcao, Gervinho, Charlie Adam, Leandro Damiao, Didier Drogba, Joe Cole

Done Deals: Brad Friedel (Aston Villa, free)

WEST BROM

Rumours: Eiji Kawashima, Tomasz Kuszczak, David Vaughan, Zoltan Gera, Danny Graham, Bradley Johnson, Pierre Webo, Mark Schwarzer, Matt Mills

Done Deals: Gareth McAuley (Ipswich, free), Billy Jones (Preston, free)

WIGAN

Rumours: Cedric Hengbart, Bradley Johnson, Ali Al-Habsi

Done Deals:

WOLVES

Rumours: Matt Mills, Jamie O'Hara, Shane Long

Done Deals:

Have we missed anyone out? Use the story comment facility below to let us know which transfer rumours you want us to chase up - or who you would like them to sign this summer.

Dons and Crawley in cup face-off

Crawley Town will host AFC Wimbledon in a Carling Cup preliminary round tie next month, with holders Birmingham given a bye to the third round.

Following a draw to determine home advantage, the Football League's two newest clubs will meet at Crawley's Broadfield Stadium on Friday, July 29 for a place in the first-round proper.

The preliminary round is necessary as holders Birmingham were relegated, but due to their Europa League commitments will not compete in the competition until round three.

The Carling Cup therefore requires one club fewer in the first round, so the two clubs placed lowest in the domestic league system last season will meet in a one-off game.

The draw for the first round takes place at 10am on Thursday.

Still learning in Herring of England U21s football team.

Team talk's Jon Holmes believes Stuart Pearce's England Under-21 side will improve as he reflects on their European U21 Championship opener.

The rangy center-back strode forward from deference and played a perfectly-weighted pass down the wing for his jet-heeled team-mate to run onto. The right-back cut into the area and found the striker, who managed to stay level with the last defender (just) before coolly turning and firing home.

Put Gerard Pique, Dani Alves and David Villa in those respective roles and you could imagine Barcelona coming up with a goal like that - so it is to the immense credit of Chris Smalling, Kyle Walker and Danny Welbeck that they managed to pull off the move when combining for England Under-21s' equaliser against Spain in Herring on Sunday.

The Barca benchmark standard was often referred to during commentary, in the Sky Sports studio and online during the European U21 Championship Group B game. The young Spaniards staged an exhibition of tiki-taka passing, a midfield carousel spun round the English by man-of-the-match Thiago Alcantara, skipper Javi Martinez and scorer Ander Herrera. Like Thiago, two more Spain players in Jeffren and Martin Montoya are also La Masia graduates in the U21 team. Their technical superiority to England could not be disputed.

But for all their poise and intricacy, particularly in the first half, Spain failed to carve out clear-cut chances against a rearguard that grew in strength as the game progressed, and it seemed appropriate that it should have been Smalling and Walker - England's two outstanding players - who instigated the attack for Welbeck's late leveller. On the evidence of the opening four games of this tournament in Denmark, Stuart Pearce can call upon the sturdiest defence of the eight competing nations, and building quickly and confidently from the back to the flanks looks like England's most profitable route to goal. Pearce clearly has some polishing to do - Phil Jones and Frankie Fielding were occasionally caught up in meandering triangles which ended with the ball being hoofed upfield (or even straight into Thiago's back) and Ryan Bertrand's position may yet come under threat from Danny Rose, whose most comfortable position appears to be left-back. However, as a unit, the defence proved encouragingly resilient.

Meanwhile, England skipper Michael Mancienne, a defender selected in midfield, was the fall guy. According to Opta stats, his passing accuracy was actually 100% but relatively few passes were made to midfield colleagues or forwards and therein lay the U21s' problem. After the match, Pearce spoke of Spain's "arrogance"; they were not afraid to give the ball to a team-mate even if he was being marked, such was the confidence that the team-mate would in turn retain possession while his colleagues ran off the ball, creating space and keeping the carousel turning. England were somewhat fearful, and on finding the path through midfield closed down, a longer pass was inevitably attempted, resulting in a more helter-skelter approach.

Pearce has also come in for heavy criticism, his tactics picked apart as a result of the failed Mancienne experiment. Yet it seems harsh to overly castigate the manager after the first game of a tournament (after all, Bobby Robson tinkered after England kicked off their Italia 90 campaign with a dreary 1-1 draw with the Republic of Ireland and ended up a national hero). Pearce is without England's best midfielder in Jack Wilshere, saw his team concede on a set-piece to a sneaky blend of Alberto Botia's blocking and Herrera's 'wristball' that extra officials would probably have spotted had they been utilised by UEFA at this tournament, and his half-time team-talk clearly energised England into playing a more patient, pressing game in the second half.

The young Lions will see more of the ball in Wednesday night's clash with Ukraine, who will be without their injured captain Taras Stepanenko. The Czech Republic were able to open Ukraine up down the right flank in their meeting, so the raiding Walker should be prominent again - but England's midfielders must show the 'arrogance' Pearce has demanded of them if they are to claim victory.

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The tournament got off to a slow start on Saturday, with Belarus and Iceland serving up a dull first half in Aarhus. The second period turned on a tackle made by Coventry's Aron Gunnarsson, who brought down Stanislav Dragun in the box for a penalty and was (harshly) sent off. Belarus were indebted to their goalkeeper Aleksandr Gutor, who made several fine stops to deny Kolbeinn Sigthorsson, and although midfield general Mikhail Sivakov took the man-of-the-match honours, the stand-out performer in my opinion was attacking midfielder Aleksandr Perepechko. The Dinamo Minsk forward was only called into the squad at the last minute after an injury to star man Vladimir Yurchenko and his industry and intelligent use of the ball (his chipped pass for Maksim Skavysh's late clincher was delightful) marked him out. Belarus were the rank outsiders going into this tournament but Perepechko's accomplished performance demonstrates the strength in depth in their ranks.

Gutor wasn't the busiest goalkeeper in Group A at the weekend, however. After a low-key opening ceremony with plastic-sheeting Viking long-boats and a rendition of the official tournament song by Bryan Rice (not to be confused with the Nottingham Forest cult hero), Switzerland's Yann Sommer lived up to his burgeoning reputation with a brilliant display to keep hosts Denmark at bay, even if he was fortunate to keep a clean sheet (Nicki Bille Nielsen was incorrectly flagged offside when he netted in the Danes' last hurrah). We should be seeing Sommer in the Champions League next season as he steps up to become FC Basel's first-choice number-one, and likewise Granit Xhaka and goalscorer Xherdan Shaqiri. Shaqiri made multiple first-half attempts to replicate his goal against England in Euro 2012 qualifying, cutting in from the right and letting fly from 25 yards, but showed he is much more than just a one-trick pony by jinking into the box from central midfield and firing emphatically past Mikkel Andersen for the only goal. Christian Eriksen was eclipsed by Shaqiri in Aalborg but winger Daniel Wass, who has recently signed for Benfica, looked very dangerous on the Danes' right flank and they will need his energy if they are to beat Belarus on Tuesday.

The stand-out individual on match day one was probably Czech Republic skipper Borek Dockland, whose brace of goals secured a 2-1 win over Ukraine in the Group B clash in Viborg. Dockal spent last season on loan at relegated Turkish Super Lig club Konyaspor from Slovan Liberec, but looks destined for more high-profile surroundings on Sunday's evidence . Right-back Ondrej Celustka was also impressive, while the much-fancied attacking duo of Andriy Yarmolenko and Yevhen Konoplyanka were disappointing for Ukraine - but substitute Maksym Bilyi produced a lively goalscoring cameo from the bench and is likely to be unleashed from the off against England on Wednesday, with a reshuffle necessary as a result of Stepanenko's injury.

The tournament continues on Tuesday with Switzerland playing Iceland in Aalborg, before Denmark host Belarus in Aarhus. On Wednesday, Spain face Czech Republic in Viborg before Pearce's England take on Ukraine in Herning.