Real Madrid are ready to
offer £120 million for Barcelona
superstar Lionel Messi.
It is a deal which is designed to send shock waves through world
football as Real Madrid plan to
upset their fiercest rivals by going for their best player, says
the Mirror.
Real Madrid paid a world
record £80m to Manchester United
last summer for Cristiano
Ronaldo but have struggled to topple
Barcelona in La Liga.
The original plan was to make the £120million offer - which is
the buy-out figure written into Messi's contract - during the week
of the Champions League final to detract from Barcelona playing in the Bernabeu.
But Barcelona's semi final
exit has now meant they will not have to do it in that timescale
but president Florentino Perez
still intends to make a shock offer to show that Real Madrid mean business again this summer.