14 years ago, Joan Laporta rejected a €250m offer from Inter for Messi and was absolutely right to do so.
“Messi is one of the best players of his age that I have ever seen. Nobody was that wonderful at 19, even Pele or Maradona,” Germany and Bayern Munich legend Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said in an interview with DPA in 2006.
Leo’s signs of greatness were quite obvious from the Argentine’s very first steps in football.
For example, former Inter Milan president Massimo Moratti offered Barcelona €250m for 19-year-old Messi fourteen years ago.
Joan Laporta, however, rejected that megaoffer and was absolutely right to do so as Lionel has gone on to win every major piece of silverware with the Catalans and add record-breaking six Ballons d’Or to his personal trophy room since then.
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