The truth about Manchester City's offer to sign Messi

Leo Messi has been in Manchester City's spotlight for a long time. The English club has tried on several occasions to achieve the signing of the Argentine star of Barça. You can be sure, without a doubt, that getting it is your great obsession. So far, of course, without success. Now, it has been a former Madridista, the Brazilian Robinho, who has been in charge of revealing some details about one of the attempts that the citizen  set made at the time  to try to take over the services of the Barça flagship. Not in vain, he was then part of the team that currently trains the former Barça Pep Guardiola.

"I spoke a couple of times with the owner, Sheikh Mansour, he told me he was going to do a great job to sign Kaka and Messi, Kaka was close, but Messi ... It was unattainable for them, but I believed in the project The Sheikh had the ambition to form the best team in the world and look at them now, they have the best coach in the world, Pep Guardiola, and they can play face to face against anyone, "said the former Real Madrid player in statements collected by the newspaper. English Daily Mail.  Robinho has also revealed who he got the best during his time at Real Madrid: David Beckham. "Neither of us spoke Spanish, but we had a great understanding, we practiced fouls before and after training, he was a better pitcher, but he never knew how to dribble like me," the Brazilian said.