If Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola were to call him personally, Fabregas admitted "it would be different".
Mr Osborne regarded Mr Carney as the central banking equivalent of Sir Alex Ferguson or Pep Guardiola.
And adding Pep Guardiola, the most sought-after manager in the world, has only made Bayern even more appealing.
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The victory put Pep Guardiola's side seven points ahead of Real Madrid, who won 3-1 at Racing Santander.
Barcelona boss Pep Guardiola insisted his team would maintain their attacking philosophy at Stamford Bridge and had no complaints about Messi.
Since the summer of 2008, when Pep Guardiola took over at Barcelona, the club has won 13 of 16 possible trophies.
Earlier, Barcelona surrendered vital points and had striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic shown a red card and coach Pep Guardiola sent to the stands.
Indeed, he seems the type of player who would fit perfectly into Pep Guardiola's squad, with his speed, skill, mobility and intelligence.
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In this case, Cruyff is very much in favour of Pep Guardiola.
Laporta is now instigating major changes and has already ended Rijkaard's reign, with the Dutchman being replaced by Pep Guardiola for next season.
The 62-year-old won 34.51% of the vote, with Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho second (20.49%) and Messi's former Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola third (12.91%).
Pep Guardiola's side are now a massive 24 points clear of third-placed Valencia , who squandered a two-goal lead before being held 2-2 by Real Mallorca.
The Catalan giants failed to produce the free-flowing football that has become their trademark under coach Pep Guardiola and they fell behind in the 25th minute.
Laporta said the Cameroon striker and his Brazilian team-mate could leave the club as new coach Pep Guardiola looks to bring stability back to Barcelona next season.
"I wouldn't say that we witnessed the end of an era, " said Heynckes, who will be replaced at Bayern by former Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola next season.
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With that and his already secured Bundesliga title, Heynckes would complete a stunning treble before he leaves the club to be replaced by former Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola.
The victory meant Real finished nine points ahead of archrivals Barcelona in second, who said farewell to departing coach Pep Guardiola with a 2-2 draw at Real Betis Saturday.
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Dani was at the centre of the action and he finally found the net with his third header - this time glancing the ball home from Pep Guardiola's free-kick.
The two-time Fifa World Player of the Year's time at Barcelona effectively came to an end in June when new manager Pep Guardiola announced the playmaker was surplus to requirements.
Messi, in outstanding form for reigning Spanish and European champions with successive La Liga hat-tricks, boosted his earnings through bonuses as Barcelona did the treble last year under Pep Guardiola.
Having dropped their first points in La Liga last weekend, Pep Guardiola's star-studded team were then surprisingly humbled 2-1 by Russian champions Rubin Kazan in the Champions League on Tuesday.
The relationship between the two has remained cool since Rosell was elected, but on the pitch under former coach Pep Guardiola and his successor Tito Vilanova, the triumphs have continued.
Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola made late changes to try and win the game and both his substitutes, Bojan Krkic and Alexander Hleb, could have given the Catalan giants a late victory.
Barca coach Pep Guardiola had warned his side about the threat of Shakhtar prior to kick-off, revealing he did not have a "good feeling" about the prospect of playing Mircea Lucescu's outfit.
In the end Andrei Iniesta's second-half goal -- inevitably set up by Messi -- gave the home side a comfortable buffer and left Pep Guardiola's team on course to defend their title.
Such a feat looked a long way off last June when coach Pep Guardiola announced that the Cameroonian did not feature in his long-term plans shortly after taking charge of the Catalan club.
"After making those six changes, we needed 20 minutes to find our rhythm, " said Heynckes, who will step down at the end of this season and be replaced by former Barcelona boss Pep Guardiola.
The semifinal meeting between Barca and Bayern has an added twist in that the Catalan's side former coach coach Pep Guardiola will replace the German club's coach Jupp Heynckes at the end of the season.
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Barca coach Pep Guardiola is missing suspended captain Carles Puyol and fellow defender Gerard Pique, while Dmytro Chygrynskiy is cup-tied, so Mexico international Rafael Marquez and Argentina's Gabriel Milito should feature in the back four.
Some leading contenders at this summer's Euro 2012 will be coached by men with a record of major titles that Pep Guardiola, the FC Barcelona coach, would reasonably expect to eclipse in a single season.
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