Expert: Messi almost joined Real Madrid before joining Barca! Because Barça management is not optimistic about Messi!

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On February 14, Spanish football expert Gilliam Barague, who has written biographies of both Messi and Barca, recently published an article about Messi and Barca's past, entitled "The Day Messi Almost Signed for Real Madrid". The content is the same as the title, it is about Messi almost joining Real Madrid before joining Barca! Because Barça management is not optimistic about Messi! Real Madrid want to sign Messi, but they don't want to offend Barca!

Balague said: When Fagel became president of Barca, the first thing he did was look at the contract. When it was discovered that Barca had actually signed a 14-year-old Messi with an annual salary of up to 100 million peseta (the Spanish currency at that time, converted into 600,000 euros), he did not want to accept it. The 14-year-old genius earns €600,000 a year and was too receptive even to Barca before he was sure that Messi would become Messi.

So the then Barca president wanted to veto the contract, and barca's other management also planned to force Messi to cut his salary. There was even a Barca executive who taunted Messi: Who does he think he is? Maradona? If you don't get into God's perspective, although this Barça executive is very arrogant and does not look favorably on Messi, it is indeed logical. After all, although there are not many 14-year-old Messi in history, there are not many, but 34 years old can still reach the height of Messi, and only Messi is the only one in history.

Messi has long since surpassed Maradona. So in the future, if someone denies the genius's high-priced contract, it can be used: who does he think he is? Messi? The contract that the Barca president wanted to deny was different from the contract that Lexach signed with Messi temporarily on napkins, but Barca was not very optimistic about Messi at that time. Before Lexarc signed Messi with a tissue, the management did nothing and delayed signing the contract, causing Messi's first agent, Josep Minga, to be very angry and threatening to take Messi to Real Madrid. Lexach was so frightened that he would rather lose his job than use his rights to sign Messi for the club.

However, the contract was recognized and allowed Messi to settle an annual salary of 600,000 euros for 14 years and Barcelona in the following years. But now, according to Barag, the Barça president and top brass want to give Messi a pay cut. Without Lexach, Barca would have lost Messi long ago. In the case that Barca was not optimistic about Messi, the then Real Madrid sporting director Baldano, who was also an Argentine, intended to sign the compatriot genius for Real Madrid and promised a higher annual salary.

However, Real Madrid did not want to offend Barca, so it never made a formal offer. Paraphrasing what Messi's lawyer said to his family, Baragne said that Real Madrid may not have felt the need to quote Messi with Barca because Messi's stakeholders had already decided to go to Real Madrid. Of course, Barca later reached an agreement with Messi, and in the end Messi played for Barca for a total of 21 years, until he was forced to leave Barca in 2021. In the future, Messi may still return to Barca. What happens if Messi goes to Real Madrid? It's another topic that needs to be discussed at length.