BARCELONA MAKE €60M OFFER FOR REAL MADRID’S ANGEL DI MARIA, INSTANTLY REJECTEDY BY PEREZ

Barcelona made surely the most pointless offer of the summer earlier today, which paradoxically would have been the most spectacular transfer of the summer had it been accepted.
According to Sports journalist, the Catalan club made a €60m bid for Angel Di Maria on Friday morning, which was rejected by Madrid President Florentino Perez no sooner than it arrived in his fax machine.

Meanwhile Barcelona wanted to make the most of the tense situation between Di Maria and Madrid, since it became known yesterday that the Argentine has asked to leave Los Blancos.
Worth a shot from Barca, possibly, but was there any realistic chance Perez would sell to arch rivals and provoke the inevitable public backlash?

Indeed, there are rumbings within the Spanish media that the very aim of the Barcelona bid was purely to provoke and destabilize their rivals, as realistically the bid was never going to be accepted. The only winners from this bid are probably…Manchester United.