Lionel Messi has reportedly agreed a €700m deal with City Football Group, to move to Manchester City.

Lionel Messi's decision to quit Barcelona for Manchester City is to be rewarded with a contract that will cement the multiple Ballon d'Or winner's status as the highest-paid individual in the history of the sport.

Record Sport understands that Messi has agreed financial terms worth €700million (currently £623m) over the course of five years in the employ of City Football Group, the Premier League club's holding company.

Messi - who on Sunday underlined last week's unilateral recision of the final year of his Barcelona contract by failing to report for mandatory COVID testing at the club – is expected to spend three seasons at Manchester City before moving to CFG's Major League Soccer franchise New York City FC.

The deal allows the group's Abu Dhabi ownership to employ the footballer they have coveted above all others since buying into European football 12 years ago at CFG's two most prominent clubs, with a degree of flexibility retained over the exact timing of Messi's cross-Atlantic switch.

According to a source familiar with the negotiations, Messi has been offered an equity stake in CFG as part of his compensation package.

However, there are complications involved in the valuation of shares in a sports company that City stated was worth a heady $4.8billion upon announcing a $500m equity investment from a US tech company last year. The Argentina international may ultimately prefer to be remunerated in cash.

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Premier league will be the ultimate winner in all of this with enough television money.

City will later regret it when they go bankrupt

You shall not Weep this Ember months Amen. Kindly share with your loved ones...

Chaii!!! EPL go sweet die


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. unbelievable... until then

Still doesn't change the fact that he won't still win the champions league there, city can never win the champions league

Wow
Formal Announcement!

I'm officially a ManCity fan; Barca; thanks for the entertainment over the years.

Fwd ever>>>

Nah lie

Ok

Nice one...

All City's matches are must-watch for me now.

If this is true, both Messi and Man City go hear am... Premier League no be La Liga... 2020 no be 2010

Ok

This is nonsense, why will the citizens done such a thing, someone that are gone beyond it prime, make cocoa yam tree fall on man city this season

They still won't win UCL

Fulks217:
City will later regret it when they go bankrupt

never

I 8-2 to say this, Barca fan are in severe pain right now

Okay

The tori nor cosine my life

Fake news

The real goat

Fake news. I bet you don't know about it

Damnnnnn niggarrr
Isoright
So Messi is going to play along side Kevin debryune
Seee problem....the two will give the world problem

Assist go dey flow like river
I nor go miss any mancity game at all

Two clubs are combining resources to buy one player. It is well

700m euros na some countries 3 yrs budget o... Messi may play one more season for barca... I doubt dis news