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Which club mistakenly tried to buy Lionel Messi due to a misinterpretation of words?

In 2008, Sheikh Mansour's investment company from the United Arab Emirates bought the English football club Manchester City. In one of the phone conversations with the executive director of the club, the sheikh said: "It's all getting messy" ("Everything is getting complicated"). The director misheard and understood this phrase as an indication to buy Lionel Messi from Barcelona, but the Spanish club rejected an offer of 30 million pounds for their leader. In the spring of the following year, Manchester City made another attempt to buy Messi and were ready to pay four times as much, but were again refused.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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