That’s not what Pep said to Messi…..
He wasn’t talking about the level of the competition or whether he could play for Man City or not.
He literally told and asked Messi that they train really hard at City and intense and wondered if Messi would fully commit to his training regime.
It wasn’t about Messi’s ability or quality, but whether he would commit to training like a dog again like during Pep’s Barca days.
Messi told him he was willing to go all-in, which is why Man City and Pep went through with negotiating personal terms with him, but as we all know Messi wanted to leave on free which Bartomeu wouldn’t let him do, and neither would he let him go for any fee less than his €1b buyout either as selling Messi would probably have been the end of Bartomeu and he wasn’t planning on leaving back then.
It’s all in Perarnau’s book which was released in Catalan & Spanish a while ago.
I think it was released in English last month? Probably why these shit accounts are posting quotes now for engagement bait and that X/Twitter Elon money that he ruined the platform with.
