Atletico Madrid boss Diego Simeone has admitted he did try to find out if there was any possibility Lionel Messi was interested in a move to the Wanda Metropolitano in the summer.
Simeone says he didn’t get in touch with Messi himself but did ask Luis Suarez to put in a call to his good friend and try to figure out if there was any chance he could be tempted to swap Barca for Atletico.
“I’ll tell you a detail,” he said. “When what happened now at Barcelona happened, we called Luis (Suarez), with all due respect.