Barcelona sporting director gives Lionel Messi transfer update amid Man City interest
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukstraight to your inbox Barcelona have not given up on keeping Lionel Messi despite the player’s dramatic transfer request on Tuesday.
The club’s new football director Ramon Planes – who replaced Eric Abidal last week – said that they are working long hours to try to head off the crisis and persuade Messi to stay, with Manchester City seen as favourites to land him.
Planes was before the media in Catalonia on Wednesday morning, with what was planned to be the unveiling of £27million Francisco Trincao after his move from Braga.But the reporters wanted to know about the Messi situation, and Planes said they were trying to find a solution.Planes said: “It was very important news.
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