The 33-year-old moved to the London Stadium from Manchester City in the summer of 2017 following nine seasons at the current reigning champions, and he has been a key member of the first-team.
Zabaleta played 37 league games last term and has already featured in nine this term, but he’s not looking to extend his two-year contract when it expires at the end of the season.
The former Espanyol has played professionally for 15 years, and now wants to return to Barcelona where his Catalan journalist and model of a wife Christel Castano has remained since 2013 when they married.