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Is Manchester City target Lionel Messi actually worth breaking the bank for?

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This combination of file pictures created on August 26, 2020 shows (L to R and TOP to BOTTOM) Barcelona's Argentinian Leo Messi in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018. - Six-time Ballon d'Or winner Lionel Messi told Barcelona he wants to leave -- on a free transfer -- in a "bombshell" fax yesterday that is expected to spark a legal battle over a buy-out clause worth hundreds of millions of dollars. [Photos by AFP]

Manchester City are among the elite European teams investigating the possibility of making arguably the biggest signing of all time in Lionel Messi, but there is one question it seems almost sacrilegious to ask...

Is Messi - as he is now - actually worth breaking the bank for?

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