straight to your inbox Lionel Messi’s advisers have used the name of Manchester City as leverage several times down the years.
As the club that has always been touted – and has seen itself – as head of the queue should the Argentina superstar ever leave the Nou Camp, the Blues have always been a natural bargaining chip whenever he wanted a new contract, or to exert some other form of influence.
Spanish sources claim this is different, and that this time Messi really means it. City are not exactly jumping at the noise coming out of Catalonia – there is a total silence on the matter.
That can be interpreted in three ways -A. They are feverishly working behind the scenes to land the player. B. They have no interest – we are going over old.
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