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How Jose Mourinho convinced Lionel Messi to sign for Chelsea
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mirror.co.ukPrior to this past summer, the thought of Lionel Messi ever leaving Barcelona was hard to fathom. Rewind back to 2014, and the prospect was something even more inconceivable.
Particularly if you consider the potential destination for arguably the world's greatest-ever player would be to team up with Jose Mourinho at Chelsea.
But according to Sky Sports journalist Gianluca Di Marzio, such a deal was a lot closer than we may think. So close in fact, that he claims Mourinho even convinced Messi that Stamford Bridge should be his new home while the Argentine toyed with the idea of departing the Nou Camp.
It was around that time that Messi was under investigation from the Spanish authorities for tax fraud - a crime he was subsequently
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