15/01/2026
🤯🇸🇦🇦🇷 Anmar Al-Haili, owner of Al-Ittihad, on the billion-dollar proposal he offered to Lionel messi in 2023:
"If Messi accepts signing with Al-Ittihad, I would offer him a contract where he could set the amount he wanted, for the duration he wanted, wven for life.
I contacted him when his contract with PSG ended. I offered him 1400 millions euros per year , but he turned it down because his family preferred the United States. I respect that and Al-Ittihad will always open its doors to him, whenever he wants.
Having Messi here in Saudi Arabia wearing our jersey means noting economically to me.
We would celebrate the league even before it started because we'd have the greatest player in football history."
via: marca.