Lionel Messi was a target of Atletico Madrid according to his manager Diego Simeone. The news was disclosed by the Argentine when speaking with Ole magazine.
Simeone commented:
“I’ll tell you something, when all that happened at Barcelona, we called Luis [Suarez] with nothing but respect.
I didn’t call Leo, but I did call Luis and I asked him about how [Messi] was, what he was thinking, [and] if there was the slightest, hypothetical chance that he might come to Atletico Madrid.
But that lasted all of three hours. Paris Saint-Germain was clearly obsessed with bringing him in.”
