Manchester City confident Lionel Messi will join them if he ever decides to leave Barcelona:

Manchester City firmly believe that they would be Lionel Messi’s first choice of club should he ever ­decide to leave Barcelona.

While City’s hierarchy are aware of how deeply embedded Messi is at the Spanish club and how difficult it would be to sign him, their ­confidence that he would want to come to them indicates that ­detailed conversations have taken place about the world’s best player.