Diego Simeone has revealed that he would have liked to bring Lionel Messi to Atletico Madrid in the summer – but that his club had no chance in the end.
Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone has been talking to Be reveal that he asked striker Luis Suarez about a commitment from his ex-teammate and friend Lionel Messi in the summer.
“I’ll tell you a secret,” said the Atleti coach. “When all of this happened at Barca, we called Luis Suarez. I didn’t call Leo, I called Luis.”
Atletico coach Simeone explains: Had no chance at Messi
And Simeone continued: “I asked how he is doing, what he thinks about it and if there was a small chance of bringing him to Atletico Madrid.”
But after three hours, according to Simeone, it was all over again. “PSG were apparently obsessed with this commitment. To be honest, we never had a chance to bring him over.”
Messi left Barcelona, where he also played with Suarez from 2014 to 2020, in the summer after 21 years due to financial problems for the Catalans and signed a two-year deal with Paris Saint-Germain.
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