According to a report on January 31, the tissue that Barcelona signed Messi is about to be auctioned. This tissue is very famous and has a great significance in the history of football. The two tissues related to Barcelona and Messi were produced in Messi's joining Barcelona and Messi's departure from Barcelona respectively. The first tissue was the tissue that Barcelona's then senior Rexach asked the waiter in the restaurant to sign a temporary contract with Messi. The tissue on the back is the tissue that Messi wiped his tears at a simple press conference when Messi left Barcelona.
Messi's first tissue has been collected for a long time, and it is only now being put up for auction. The outside world generally only knows that the Barcelona management who signed Messi is Rexach, and Messi signed. But in fact, there were two other people on the scene, both of whom were Messi's agents at the time, Minghella and Giagioli.
The tissue had been kept with Giorgioli and locked in the safe. Giagioli had planned to send the tissue to the Barça Museum, but negotiations were unsuccessful, so he took it out for auction. If Barcelona want to get this tissue, they have to win the bid. The tissue was auctioned by the famous British auction house Bonhams, with a starting price of 300,000 pounds (350,000 pounds converted to pounds).
Barcelona has no privileges compared to other institutions or organizations, but Barcelona is a giant, although there is no money to buy people, but there is still an advantage in participating in such an auction with team history value. Barcelona signed Messi under a formal contract, so they don't have ownership of the tissue. According to previous reports, Messi himself did not remember that he signed for Barcelona through tissues in an interview. After all, Messi was only 13 years old at the time, and it was normal for him to forget something.