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British tabloid The Sun claims that Manchester City is ready to make a 112 million euro° bid for Barcelona right wing attacker and Argentinian international Lionel Messi (21) in the summer (read more here).

Manchester City owner Sulaiman Al-Fahim would have made Messi his number one target and would have personally approved the bid for the Barcelona striker. The Arab billionaire is convinced that his financial offer will persuade Messi to leave.

Earlier this week, Al-Fahim was unconfirmedly quoted by German newsagency Dpa as saying that he would like to sign the Argentinian player: "I hope that Maradona will join us soon, together with Messi, because that's a player who makes me love Argentina again."

Asked about his future, Messi meanwhile said in an interview with Portuguese newspaper Público that he has no plans to leave Barcelona: "If it would depend on me, I will stay with Barcelona until the end of my career. The rumours about Real Madrid and others are pure fantasy. I will only leave if Barcelona wants me to and no club will convince me of the opposite."

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