Yeah so I actually listened to that podcast (which you clearly did not) and he didn't say that. Ahsan asked Sam a hypothetical about which players could be involved and they both just think out loud for a minute and speculate like we're all doing. It wasn't news he reported. You guys are so dumb with this Sam Lee stuff sometimes. Give it a rest.
Here's the rough transcript. It's at 26 minutes for anyone you want to listen:
"My thinking for the whole thing is that City probably are desperate to get Messi, and if they are desperate to get Messi and they had to pay 200 million but they could, for arguments sake, completely hypothetically, give Bernardo Silva as part of that operation my guess is that they would. I think the only player they wouldn't want to give is De Bruyne, but maybe they want him so much they would even do that? I'm not saying that's going to happen, I'm just thinking out loud. I'm just thinking hypothetically, if the board was given the option you can have Messi but you could give De Bruyne would they do that? I'm just trying to quantify how desperate they are to get it done."