Pablo Zabaleta urges Lionel Messi to join Man City as Pep Guardiola can offer him the new challenge

Pablo Zabaleta claims Manchester City could be ‘excellent’ for Lionel Messi if he decides to go away Barcelona.

Messi is out of contract in the summertime and is prone to go away the Catalan giants with Manchester Metropolis and Paris Saint-Germain potential touchdown spots. 

Zabaleta – who performed alongside Messi for Argentina – believes that Pep Guardiola can supply him the brand new problem he’s eager for at Metropolis and insists that Messi should ‘expertise the Premier League’ in some unspecified time in the future throughout his profession. 

Pablo Zabaleta believes Manchester Metropolis could be the ‘excellent’ match for Lionel Messi 

Zabaleta does, nevertheless, recognise the issue of leaving Barcelona after so a few years however insists Messi’s relationship with Metropolis chiefs Txiki Begiristain and Ferran Soriano will assist him settle into life on the membership shortly. 

The ex-Metropolis defender instructed the Mirror: ‘If Lionel Messi ­decides to go away Barcelona and he needs to play in the perfect league then he has to expertise the Premier League for himself. It’s one thing that may ­curiosity him – as a result of each participant I do know at all times asks me what the Premier League is like.

‘Leo has been in La Liga for thus a few years and I believe it will be an enormous ­attraction for him to expertise English soccer.

‘And Manchester Metropolis supply the ­excellent situations.

The previous Metropolis defender is aware of Messi properly, having performed alongside him for Argentina

‘He is aware of Pep very properly, he is aware of [sporting director] Txiki Begiristain and [chief executive] Ferran Soriano – and likewise Kun Aguero.

‘It will be an enormous ­resolution if Leo leaves ­Barcelona. But when that is what he needs then it will be a superb factor for him to go to a membership that has individuals already there who might help him to settle.

‘When you could have been at one membership for thus lengthy, transferring ­someplace new might be very unusual.

‘I’m positive golf equipment like ­Paris Saint-Germain and Juventus would even be ­occupied with signing him, however it’s my opinion that Metropolis could be the perfect place to go after Barcelona.’

Messi performed below the Manchester Metropolis supervisor Guardiola throughout his time at Barcelona