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Newcastle United and Inter Milan made offers for Leo Messi, according to Alfredo Martinez.
The Argentine apparently did not consider them. He was only thinking about coming back to Barcelona or playing outside Europe.
While Newcastle have recently been absorbed by Arab owners, there is a strong Argentinian connection at Inter Milan, with Javier Zanetti as the vice-president and some Argentina internationals on the team.
It would be mad to see Messi play for one of these two teams. No surprise he was never close to joining them.
After not waiting for long, the 35-year-old decided to join Inter Miami in his first professional player experience outside Europe. He is expected to sign a one-year deal with the MLS side.
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