Uzbekistan spent $47m to revamp their entire footballing infrastructure + heavy subsidies for their top clubs while India spent $11m for a Messi tour, $1m erecting his statue (demolished within a year due to structural flaws) & the domestic league was recently dead for months.
🚨🚨🎙️| Jack Grealish to Lionel Messi:
“When I played against Messi [for City vs PSG], it was the first time I saw him play in front of me, so I said to him between the halves: ‘Hello Messi, Guardiola loves you very much’ and he started laughing.’
“So I said to him: ‘Please play with us at City because Guardiola always scolds us and says Messi did this and that. If you come, he will not get angry with us again.’
“He smiled and said to me ‘I understand what you said’ and we exchanged handshakes and he left.”