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Inter Milan "went all out" to sign Lionel Messi as ex-chief lifts lid on transfer pursuit
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mirror.co.ukInter Milan "went all out" to sign Lionel Messi back in 2008 according to the club's former technical director Marco Branca.
The Argentine was just 21 and 12 months away from winning the first of his six Ballon d'Ors. The Serie A club offered Messi a more lucrative deal than the one he was on at the Nou Camp.
But he ended up staying put and is now recognised as one of, if not the, greatest football of all time. “Yes, we moved for him but Leo did not want to leave Barcelona,” Branca told . “He was very grateful to the club.
Money does not always come first.” Branca worked at the San Siro for 12 years from 2002 and helped sign the likes of Diego Milito, Samuel Eto’o and Wesley Sneijder.
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