WHEN SIX CLUBS WANTED TO BUY LIONEL MESSI FROM BARCELONA AT SEVENTEEN YEARS OF AGE.

When Lionel Messi was a seventeen year old six big clubs came asking to buy him from Barcelona. He was so good at that at seventeen yeas of age he was so good that once the famous Brazilian footballer Ronaldinho once introduced the late basketball legend Kobe Bryant, to a seventeen year old boy playing at Barcelona, Ronaldinho told Kobe Bryant, that this boy will one day be the greatest footballer In the world. 1) the Argentinean club River Plate refused to sign him saying that the club would not be spending money on buying youth as they had Gonzalo Higuaín and neither did they want to treat him for his hormone deficiency. 2) Glasgow Rangers of Scotland made two attempts to buy him out from Barcelona , but fell short of the actual price. 3) Juventus wanted to buy him after watching Barcelona thrashed Juventus. In fact after the match the two managers Franck Raijkard and Fabio Capello had a very urgent talk n buying Lionel Messi. And this is what Fabio Capello said of Lionel Messi, in all years as a footballer and a manager in Spain, Italy and England, I have never seen a seventeen year old boy with such a fire in the belly to get the ball, hold it and his dribbling, eye for a goal, his pace was far to good to be true as the saying goes in Spain seeing is believing , and believing is seeing. Barcelona never wanted to sell Lionel Messi. 4) Espanyol and the Argentinean manager Mauricio Pochettino wanted to buy Lionel Messi as well. 5) Arsenal to wanted to sign Lionel Messi, as Arsene Wenger , always had a eye for buying youngster. But failed in the deal same story they were not selling their diamond to any one. 6) Of all the clubs the Italian club Inter Milan came closest of hem all o buy Lionel Messi, in fact Inter Milan wee the only club that was willing to pay Barcelona the 176, one hundred and seventy six million buy out clause of Lionel Messi. Inter Milan tried to convince Lionel Messi that they had a few Argentineans playing for them like Hernan Crespo, Javier Zanetti , Paulo Zanetti But both Lionel Messi and Barcelona wee not selling their wizard to any club.