Furious Hleb: I've not signed for Bayern or Barcelona so just give me peace

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Hleb has denied the report, and requested the media cool their interest in his future, with speculation still linking the 27-year-old with a move to Barcelona this summer.

"These reports anger me," he said. "I have not signed for Bayern, Barcelona or any other club for that matter.

"So much is being speculated and said, but I just want to have some peace and
sit down with my closest friend Niki Spilevski to consider
my future."

Plea for sense: Hleb wants the speculation to end

However, only last month the 27-year-old winger was insisting that Arsenal's failure to win atrophy under Arsene Wenger was forcing him to seek a fresh challenge elsewhere.

He said then: “Titles are the most important thing. You can play very well, perhaps the best ever but after the career you ask what you have won.

“To win a title is also the most important thing for me. The clock is ticking but it is simply not happening. It is very difficult. In this year I thought that I would win two titles, but as I said everything went wrong.

“I think I played quite well, even though it could have been better. I am satisfied. Only with the end that we have no title, I am obviously not satisfied.”

“If I’ll go, then only in a different league, in any case, in England, there is only Arsenal for me.”

And his representative called it a "great honour" that he was being touted as a possible target of Spanish giants Real Madrid.

"For any player in the world it is always a great honour that a club like Real Madrid is interested in him," he said.

"Nobody should have any doubts that the interest from Madrid is a privilege for the player."