Across the front the Barca midfielder had written: "To Francesc Fabregas, waiting a couple of years to see you wear the No 4 at Camp Nou. Health. Good luck. Pep Guardiola."
A decade on and Guardiola is the boss at the Nou Camp welcoming Fabregas home to the club where all began.
The signed shirt was the idea of Rodolfo Borrell, coach of the Barcelona youth side at the turn of the century.
Young Fabregas — the No 4 in that successful junior team — had been upset by the news that his parents had begun divorce proceedings.
Borrell asked Guardiola, the club's defensive midfield rock and regular No 4, if he would sign a jersey for the vulnerable 13-year-old.
Not only was the Spaniard happy to oblige, he's now made his own prophecy come true with the £40million capture of the Arsenal captain.
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