Man City to sign Messi?

Is this possible? The most reasonable response to this question is ‘money talks’! Manchester City will try to make the biggest transfer in the football history. According to the British tabloid ‘Sun’, The Citizens will do everything possible to convince the Barcelona star Lionel Messi to change his beloved club with Man City. For the purpose The City’s owner is going to make a mind-boggling offer of £800k per week to the Argentinian ‘magician’, which with the bonuses can reach nearly 40 million pounds per year. Messi’s representatives have already met with City’s chiefs and heard the proposal of the English club. The first reaction from the Messi’s camp was positive.

Currently, 28-year-old Messi gets about 500k pounds a week at Barcelona. Manchester City have prepared another ace in their attempt to persuade Leo to make the big step. This will be the possible appointment of Josep Guardiola, who can eventually leave Bayern (Munich) and take exactly Manchester City.

But we mustn’t forget about the amount Barcelona have to receive in order to sell their best player. The release clause in the contract of Messi is the amount of £250 m., but Manchester City have decided to start their offensive with a proposal of £120 m.

Until now, Kevin De Bruyne is the most expensive Manchester City’s transfer. The amount paid for him is about £54-58m. The Belgian international is the most expensive player, purchased by an English team. The world football transfer record at the moment is the transfer of Gareth Bale from Tottenham Hotspur to Real Madrid. The Welsh international costed £85.3 m., which amount is about £5 m. more than the signing of Cristiano Ronaldo.

Opposite to these colossal sums, I will mention the cheapest transfer in the modern era of football, excluding the free transfers. Have you heard of Tony Cascarino? Crockenhill sold their young striker Cascarino to Gillingham in 1981 for only £180. The irony is that he scored 78 goals in 219 games and 6 years later was sold for about £200k to Millwall. Cascarino even became an Irish international in 1985 and scored 19 goals in 88 matches for his country. So, please, Man City’s bosses, don’t cause this to football. Give a chance to your youngsters. Among them could be the next Messi.

In conclusion, if Manchester City buy Leo Messi, football will continue to be ‘inflated financial bubble’, which will be cracked some day. Because it is not normal a player to cost £250 m. and to take £40 m. per year. And that’s why the English national team won’t win a major trophy soon – because the managers don’t give a chance to the young English talents and buy million-pounds players!