I'm not doing Sookie, much as I'd like to on a variety of fronts!!
I'm especially conscious of misleading the board or being made accountable for Messi's own decision-making process (he's retired from the national twice)
As I say, this all came to me originally via a decent contact in Abu Dhabi about a week or so ago and I know some CFG people have been getting very giddy ever since.
City just aren't the aggressor in this, hence why I had a YouTube meltdown on Saturday night, it was the first time somebody had said Messi's people had made the approach, rather than us, would be handing in a formal transfer request.
They have been bob on so far and seemingly City can have this all boxed-off.
My only concern remains the story becoming bigger than Messi and him being talked down like Kaka was at Milan.