Hector Bellerin is thrilled to be back with Barcelona.

After a release from his contract at Arsenal, Bellerin signed for Barca, having left the club for London as a 16 year-old.

He reflected, "It's one of these things that you feel you'll not have the opportunity to experience.

"I've had the opportunity before but for one thing or another it hasn't happened. It's been one of the years I least expected to come back here, but for me it's coming home and I'm very excited.

"I cannot compare the 16-year-old boy who left here with the 27-year-old who returns. I am very proud and grateful to the people I have met in these 11 years that I have been away and who have made me the person I am today. A person with very different ambitions and with a lot of desire and the same enthusiasm.

"Last year I lived more or less the same. I knew what I had to do during the summer. I thought that I could even stay at Arsenal to finish my contract but in the end the outcome was very nice."