Wenger: "Messi could have played in the Arsenal"

In statements collected by the Agency EFE, Arsène Wenger has gone back to speak of the Argentinian star of the FC Barcelona, Leo Messi, ensuring that it could have formed part of the history of the group "gunner" since they could ficharle when they achieved the services of Cesc Fábregas pertinent of the inferior categories of the Barcelona club. "We wanted to bring to (Cesc) Fàbregas, (Gerard) Hammered and to Messi, but at the end only came the first. It was a period in which they played all together in the Barcelona, but, at the end, Messi was comfortable there", has signalled the trainer of the Arsenal.

Finally, they had problems and did not close the negotiations. "At the end it did not arrive to an agreement, but did not go only by the accommodation, but because Messi was comfortable in Barcelona". Since, Messi was growing and despuntando in the inferior categories until eclosionar definitively in the first team of the FC Barcelona. Sure that Wenger will have arrepentido in more than an occasion of not to have him been able to fichar, especially when the Argentinian lumbered with four goals to the Arsenal in eighth of final of the Champions does some years.

The "Daily Star" based in the book "Messi", of Guillem Balagué, to take out to the light a situation that lived in the season 2002-03 when Leo Messi, Cesc Fábregas and Gerard Hammered formed part of the Cadet To of the FC Barcelona and an observer of the Arsenal, Francis Cagigao, fixed in the talent of the three young players of the Barcelona team and proposed them both offers to carry them to London. "Everything began with a party in Lloret of Sea against the Parma. This day Hammered did not play, but the rest of the team, that won the party, yes did it".

"The representative of the Arsenal in Spain, Francis Cagigao, remained amazed. It finish to witness something very different and quite extraordinary, that is to say, the control of Cesc and the talent of Leo", can read in the quoted book. When seeming, said representative dined even with the father of Leo Messi, Jorge, and his agent Horace Gaggioli.