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Loved-up Messi’s out of your league

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SERGIO BUSQUETS has told the Premier League’s giants to forget about signing Lionel Messi.

The defensive midfielder said Messi, who has just become a dad for the third time, is in love with life in Barcelona – on and off the pitch.

Manchester City and Chelsea have been linked with mega-money moves for the 30-year-old Argentinia­n superstar (left).

But Busquets, 29, (right) said: “He is totally at home here, having all the factors there are – a great changing room, winning titles, a great project, winning collective and individual awards. “He is in a great city and in the end all these positive things are difficult to find elsewhere. “The Premier League is a spectacula­r league that we

would maybe like to play in, from DAVID WOODS in Barcelona but you have to take the positives and the negatives into account. “When you do that, it is very difficult to think about leaving Barcelona because you have everything here to make you feel good. “If you have been here for a long time and it feels so much like home, it is hard to leave.” Busquets also warned Chelsea that Messi would be buzzing tonight after becoming a father again, having missed the win at Malaga on Saturday to be at the birth of his third son, Ciro. He said: “He will be fine, in fact he will be more motivated and relaxed than we are used to. “Physically he is going to be great after having an extra game’s rest. So I hope that this is perfect.”

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