Communication error! Former assistant reveals Man City accidentally made an offer to buy ‘Messi‘

Mark Bowen, Manchester City’s former assistant manager during the 2008/09 era. Has reveal that the club accidentally made a £35million bid for Lionel Messi from Barcelona.

The incident occurr in 2008, when Manchester City were in the midst of a period of transition. Having been taken over by Abu Dhabi United and with Garry Cook as the club’s CEO. They were looking to sign big-name players to make a statement.

However, Mark Bowen, former assistant to then Manchester City https://ufabet999.appmanager Mark Hughes. Has revealed that a miscommunication with their CEO led to City making an unintentional bid for Messi.

“It happened on closing day and Garry Cook said to Mark Hughes, ‘Yes, the owner wants to make a statement.’

“We had one bid of over £30m for Berbatov, Robinho. Franck Ribery because they could go for £30-35m and someone would have said yes. In the end it was Robinho.”

“While all this was going on, Cook was in London and he had his people contacting a lot of parties. But then they sent this offer to the president of Barcelona. ​​and it turn out that Man City had offer £35m for Messi.”

“Then we searched for the truth and it turn out that someone, probably Cook.

Turn around and said, ‘Oh my gosh, this is getting messy. He said messy and someone misunderstood it and sent an offer to Barca for Messi.”

“Their president contacted me and said, ‘Who the hell do you think you are? You think you can buy Messi from us? No way. Back off.’

However, Garry Cook was the man at the time and he helped Manchester City sign the likes of Tal Ben Haim, Cho, Vincent Kompany, Pablo Zabaleta, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Wayne Bridge, Shay Given and Nigel de Jong.