For all we know Barca's 'he's a Barca player' has been the truth all along, we've not even made an approach for him, and the papers just made the rumours up? What does a player have to come out and deny every link?
If he doesn't want to come Barca will know this, and he doesn't owe us any explanation at all publicly.
If he does want to come, i'm sure we know this behind the scenes and he's going to let the official PR teams from both clubs make the announcement, y'know, as is usual? Because it's 'dragged on' for 8 days doesn't mean he owes us jack shit.