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Glasgow Rangers Were No Strangers to Signing Players from Barcelona in The Early 2000s, Paying Big Money for Mikel Arteta and Ronald de Boer.
Howver, Those Ibrox Nearly Brought In Lionel Messi From The Catalan Giants Before He Broke Into The First-Team Picture at The Nou Camp.
The Argentina Icon is Rightly Recognized to the Best Footballers To Play The Game and Hasn’t Looking His Senior Barcelona Age 17 Years With Barcelona Before Saint-Germain and then Inter Miami.
Lionel Messi’s Major Honors | Year Won |
|---|---|
Ballon d’or | 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019, 2021, 2023 |
World Cup | 2022 |
America Cup | 2021, 2024 |
Champions League | 2006, 2009, 2011, 2015 |
The League | 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2019 |
Ligue 1 | 2022, 2023 |
UEFA Super Cup | 2009, 2011, 2015 |
Club World Cup | 2010, 2012, 2016 |
Copa del Rey | 2009, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2018, 2021 |
Spanish Super Cup | 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2018 |
Supporters’ Shield | 2024 |
MLS League Cup | 2023 |
Olympic Gold Medal | 2008 |
French Super Cup | 2022 |
Messi Has Won Everything There is to Game, Including Eight Ballon d’Or Awards, and He finally Claimed World Cup Glory in His Country in 2022.
Howver, Things Could Have SO Different For The Magician, IF Those in Glasgow Got Their Way.
How Rangers Nearly Signed Messi From Barcelona
As Per A Report From Goal, Rangers actually Made Enquiries to Sign Messi on Loan From Barcelona Prior to His Senior debut. Unfortunately, Those Efforts Were Turned by Those At The Nou Camp, But It was Alex McLeish’s Son, Jon, Who Found Messi.
Talking on the Big Interview Podcast in 2017, McLeish Went Into Love Him’s Love Manager Alerted Him to Messi in 2003, With the search for the search for Barry Ferguson.
“My Son Jon Was Championship Manager. He was convincing me names in South America. They come out of the Sky and say ‘Lionel Messi Is Going to Be The Best Player in The World’.
“He was 13 or 14 at The Time. You dismiss it But Rangers Were Downsizing And We Were Looking For Some Quality In Midfield.
“Barry Ferguson Had Gone Down to Blackburn So We Would Have Taken The Ball in Anywhere in the World. We Needed Players of That Ik Again.
“Jan Wouters Phoned Henk Ten Cate, Who Was The Assistant of Frank Rijkaard, The Ex-Dutch International.
“Jan Phoned Him and Said: ‘Messi?’ We’re Told No Chance. “
Jon’s Prediction of Messi Becoming The Greatest in The World was accurate, Showing The Powers Football Manager Can Have In Real Life.
