Marco Verratti revealed how a chance dinner with Messi changed everything.
"We were in Ibiza. Neymar came to me and said: we are having dinner with Leo tonight", - Verratti recalls, according to Lent.az, citing foreign media.
"So, at the table were me, Messi, Paredes, Ney, and Di Maria. We were talking, joking, and at one point we started hinting to Leo: come to Paris."
"We said goodbye late at night and the next day news broke that Messi had problems with Barcelona. Then Ney called: "Marco, Leo is joining us." It was a magical night."
A few days later it became official: Messi became a PSG player.