PSG-Real Madrid: When Lionel Messi almost joined the Merengue in 2001

PSG-Real Madrid: When Lionel Messi almost joined the Merengue in 2001
Real Madrid was one of Lionel Messi‘s favorite victims when he wore the FC Barcelona jersey. Before scoring 26 goals in all competitions against the Merengue, the seven-time Ballon d’Or, who will find the leader of Liga this Tuesday evening in the round of 16 first leg of the Champions League with PSG, almost wore the club’s tunic of the Spanish capital. In an interview with Le Parisien, Guillem Balague, the biographer of La Pulga, told the story that could have changed everything for the Argentinian.

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The journalist explains that in the fall of 2001, when Lionel Messi was 14, the Barcelona management seriously questioned the amount of the contract to offer the native of Rosario. This hesitation could have benefited Real Madrid, because Jorge Valdano, ex-director of football of the Merengue, followed the file closely. Indeed, Javier Perez Farguell, former general manager of the Blaugrana, had judged that the annual contract of 100 million pesetas per season was excessive for a teenager (note: around 600,000 euros per year).

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Who does he think he is? Maradona? Let’s stop it now and he can go back to Argentina“, would have launched a Catalan leader, when another person present in the negotiations would have blown: “I think we will go to Madrid“. Finally, an agreement was reached between FC Barcelona and Lionel Messi. We know the rest…

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