As per the reports, the agreement would be sold in the interest of Lionel Messi's representative Horacio Gaggioli
Thursday, February 01, 2024
The Argentine striker and the widely acclaimed's footballer Lionel Messi's most memorable agreement with Barcelona — endorsed on December 14, 2000 — is fit to be sold in Spring with the sticker price of an astounding 350,000 euros.
The agreement in its underlying structure was planned on a napkin when the footballer was in his 13 years old and persuaded the high-ups of the Catalan football club to get a spot for him early in life.
Lionel Messi's agreement will be sold under a London-based sales management firm Bonhams.
As per the reports, the agreement would be sold for Argentine player specialist Horacio Gaggioli.
The spectators were dazzled by the 13-year-old's fourteen day preliminary with Barcelona in September 2000, in any case, the club was reluctant to get the new youthful player.
Barcelona chief Carles Rexach was stressed over the club losing such a decent player as Messi had gotten back to his home city of Rosario in Argentina.
As per The Athletic, Gaggioli let last year know that he had informed Rexach in December 2000 that on the off chance that they couldn't focus on marking Messi — the teen would be proposed to different clubs, including Genuine Madrid.
Gaggioli was welcomed by Barcelona's chief to choose for Messi however because of the lack of time to consent to an arrangement officially. The arrangement was to compose on a napkin and take the marks of the multitude of gatherings in the agreement, which would later turn legitimate.
The agreement on the napkin read: "In Barcelona, on December 14, 2000, and within the sight of the noble man (the specialist, Josep Maria) Minguella and Horacio (Gaggioli), Carles Rexach, specialized secretary of FCB, commits under his obligation, in spite of the assessment of other people who are against marking Lionel Messi, as long as the concurred expenses are kept up with."
"This is quite possibly of the most exciting thing I have at any point dealt with," Ian Ehling, head of fine books and original copies at Bonhams New York said, adding "indeed, it's a paper napkin, yet the renowned napkin was at the commencement of Lionel Messi's profession."
"It changed the existence of Messi, the fate of FC Barcelona, and was instrumental in giving the absolute most brilliant snapshots of football to billions of fans all over the planet."
Gaggioli while reviewing the occasion named it a "radiant second" saying: "That napkin broke the gridlock."
"My legal advisors checked it out. The napkin had everything: my name, his name, the date. It's notarised. It was an authoritative record."
"It'll be a piece of me until the end of my life. The napkin will continuously be next to me. I live in Andorra and I've kept the napkin in a protected inside a bank."
Minguella let Catalunya Radio Wednesday know that the napkin had been in his office for a really long time and he had offered Barcelona the opportunity to show it in the club's gallery.
