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06-08-2021 | 17:21 Football
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Pep Guardiola breaks silence on Lionel Messi's Barcelona exit amid Manchester City links

Pep Guardiola has claimed that Lionel Messi is not in Manchester City's radar after they spent £100million on Jack Grealish. On Thursday night Barcelona announced the shocking news of not being able to sign new contract with Messi, because of new La Liga regulations. The Argentinian has previously linked with a move to the Etihad, but Guardiola claims that there are no current plans to pursue Messi, after they spent £100million, partly off-set by the £60milion sales of fringe players, to bring in Jack Grealish.
"We spent £40m on Jack Grealish," said City boss. "We paid £100m and brought £60m.   "He will wear the number 10 because we were convinced with Grealish and we were were convinced Leo would continue at Barcelona, so right now he is not in our thoughts.   "It looked like it finished well in terms of him continuing with Barcelona.   "It was a surprise for everyone — me included. The president was clear today. I didn't speak with the player or the president so I don't know what has happened but as a supporter of the club I would love for him to have finished, but today the club needs to be sustainable and what happened in the last year was really not good.   "As a fan, I have incredible gratitude for the most extraordinary player I have seen in my life, for the titles he helped to Barcelona, to help me personally, to help me to go to Munich and then to England.   "More than that, the incredible amount of feelings and actions in front of the TV and watch what he can do with the ball, with his mates in one football game.   "Day by day, game by game, every three days he made something unique. All I can say is thank you so much to bring Barcelona to another level, to allow Barcelona to dominate the world for a decade, and I wish him the best for the last few years of his career.   "He will not be forgotten. Hopefully one day we can say the best every because he deserves it. But if president Laporta arrives in this situation, he should do it unfortuantely because someone before didn't do well."
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