{"id":470699,"date":"2023-11-23T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T13:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=470699"},"modified":"2023-11-23T08:58:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T12:58:29","slug":"paolo-maldini-tried-to-bring-lionel-messi-to-ac-milan","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/paolo-maldini-tried-to-bring-lionel-messi-to-ac-milan\/","title":{"rendered":"Paolo Maldini tried to bring Lionel Messi to AC Milan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former AC Milan technical director Paolo Maldini has revealed that he wanted to bring Lionel Messi to the Rossoneri team, beating the competition of city-rivals Inter.<\/p>\n<p>The legendary defender was fired by Milan&#8217;s owner Gerry Cardinale at the beginning of June, after holding the director&#8217;s post for 5 years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udd34\u26ab\ufe0f\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf7 Former AC Milan director Paolo Maldini reveals: \u201cWe tried to sign Leo Messi. I wanted him, we called for it but after 10 days we understood it was just impossible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s wonderful player, we tried but it was not possible for us\u201d, told Poretcast. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gTJmdGYZgg\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/gTJmdGYZgg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1727446861865202141?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was sad when I read that he (Messi) could go to Inter. For 10 days I tried to arrange his transfer to Milan, but then we realized that it was simply impossible,&#8221; MilanReports quoted Maldini. Back in 2021 Messi was considered by Inter, but his high financial requirements blocked the potential deal.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, the Argentine left Barcelona and joined PSG, where he spent two season before joining Inter Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former AC Milan technical director Paolo Maldini has revealed that he wanted to bring Lionel Messi to the Rossoneri team, beating the competition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":470705,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17877,17909,18105],"news_category":[138,14235],"gn_keywords":[17879,17910,919],"acf":{"announce":"\"I tried for 10 days\", the former technical director reveled ","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470712,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470699\/revisions\/470712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470699"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=470699"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=470699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}