Gerard Pique is certain that Cesc Fabregas will join him at Barcelona but does not know whether he will make the move back from Arsenal this summer.
The Blaugrana defender was reacting to mounting speculation that the Gunners captain could return to Camp Nou as part of the Catalan club's election.
With current president Joan Laporta wanting to do a deal for Fabregas before he steps down in June, several of his potential successors also want to bolster their campaigns.
"I still do not know if he will come here next season, but one day he will wear the Barca shirt again because he is a fan and I know that he wants to come back in the future," Pique explained.
"He is a player that should play here and he wants to come, but we will have to wait and see when that is."
Barca tasted defeat for the first time in the league at the weekend and Pique has laughed off talk that the team is panicking as Real Madrid move to within two points of them.
"There are rumours that there are doubts, but inside the dressing room there are absolutely none," he continued.
"There were many people that were waiting for us to lose our first game and now they are happy and they want us to doubt ourselves.
"But the squad is fine and now we will start to win again and continue in the same line as before."
Coach Pep Guardiola has had to reshuffle his team in recent weeks as the Barcelona injury list grows and Pique hopes that will not increase any further.
"Of course the alarm bells rang for some but at no time has it concerned us," he added.
"We have a good enough squad to cope on all fronts and if there are lots of injuries then of course that is not good. We do not need any more injuries and everyone is coming back now."
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