Manchester City director Pep Guardiola's talk with Lionel Messi has been shared
Pep Guardiola, the united city manager, and Lionel Messi, the inter Miami ace, set off the most formidable force that football has ever witnessed while they were at Barcelona, dominating the continent and even recording the first sextuple always.
Guardiola was concerned for Messi's move into the previously renewed' fake nine ' position, helping the little Argentine to a colossal 91 goals in a calendar year in 2012, just months before the Spaniard's departure from Catalonia.
A meeting between the two was always seen as more of a romantic tube wish than anything to be taken seriously, with Guardiola's ventures around Europe set to run parallel with the once-held conviction that Messi would be at Camp Nou until his retirement or at least his exit from Europe immediately.
Lionel Messi's signing at Manchester City about came close to being signed by Pep Guardiola.
However, money problems at Barcelona forced Messi out in 2021 and with him any actual remains of the league's glory time of the 2000s and 2010s. At the time of his withdrawal, many people praised his dream job at Manchester City, but their hopes were immediately thwarted by a move to Paris Saint-Germain.
The forward spent three effective, albeit ordinary, times at the Parc des Princes before departing for Miami, taking his sixth Ballon d'Or and a World Cup prize with him. Although it has been revealed that the pair have since come extremely close to winning in recent years, Messi, 36, seems almost certain that he will never play another economical game under his mentor.
According to creator Martí Perarnau, interactions between the two suggested a 2020 move to Manchester City was greenlit by both parties, although conversations between the leagues not materialised.
As written in his latest book, The Pep Revolution, Perarnau quotes a clear conversation between the two, writing that Pep told Messi," We train painful in Manchester". Messi replied," Does n't bother me. I'm prepared for painful work".
" And I also give much military deals", Guardiola is said to have told the Flea. " Maybe you'll get bored …"
" I'll deal, I can deal with whatever you throw at me", came Messi's answer. The Catalan reportedly told his original student that given that they were both nearly a century older, they may not get on like they used to.
" Pep, I just want the chance to do great things, to feel like I'm ready to smash it again", Leo replied. In the end, the move never came on.
Messi remained in Catalonia for another year, before eventually leaving. Will we ever see the couple reunited? It's doubtful, nowadays…
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