Barcelona sporting director admits Man City and PSG could sign Lionel Messi

Barcelona's new international sporting director admits the financial firepower of Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain could one day lure Lionel Messi away from the Camp Nou.

There has been speculation over Messi's future since the turn of the year although the Argentina forward has been in record-breaking form for the Blaugrana.

Messi scored his 24th La Liga hat-trick during the Catalans' 6-1 mauling of Rayo Vallecano on Sunday to send them top of the table.

The 27-year-old, who is Barca's all-time top scorer, is tied to the club until June 2019 and has a £205 million release clause in his contract.

And although Ariedo Braida admits that it would be "nearly impossible" to pry the little magician away from the club, he feels big-spending City and PSG are two clubs that might be capable of pulling off a mega-deal for the player.

He told Spanish TV channel Esport3: "I believe it's very difficult that Messi will leave Barca but at times in football strange things happen.

"Now with these clubs that have so much money like (Manchester) City, certain amounts don't seem to have a value.

"In football things happen that appear impossible but I hope he will remain.

"Sometimes strange things happen. He is a phenomenon, an extra-terrestrial comparable to Maradona and Pele."

Messi claimed earlier this year that he was happy at Barca and quashed speculation that he would leave the club this summer.

He has so far enjoyed an outstanding campaign, scoring 30 goals and setting up 14 more in 26 league appearances.

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A former policewoman has been jailed for 22 months after seizing CCTV footage of a street bust-up to be used as a "tool to blackmail" Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard.

Helen Jones, 32, a former PC with Merseyside Police, obtained the footage by "flashing her warrant card" to the manageress of a bank.

The incident involved friends of Gerrard, the then-England captain, becoming involved in a row with other men at a bar near his home in Formby, Merseyside, which spilled out on to the street and was caught on the CCTV cameras of a nearby bank.

Local businessman Paul Lloyd, 35, claimed Gerrard "threw the first punch" but, at an earlier hearing, prosecutors said the Liverpool midfielder was acting as a peacemaker on the evening of August 4 2013.

Jones, formerly of Formby, now living in Chatham, Kent, did not deny improperly using her status as a police officer to get the CCTV and admitted misconduct in a public office but claimed she was doing a favour for a friend.

But during a three day hearing, known as a trial of issue last November, Judge Stuart Baker said he found her account "wholly implausible", ruling Jones acted for "base motives" and described her as a "practised and persistent liar".

He said the CCTV was secured to use it "possibly as a lever to cause Mr Gerrard to pay money to suppress it or, at the very least, to use it in a away which would potentially cause embarrassment, as has in fact occurred".

Jailing her today Judge Baker told the defendant: "This was deliberate and calculated misconduct in a public office."

The judge added: "You deliberately created a false impression in the mind of the bank manager that you were investigating a criminal offence.

"In fact you were on a mission to obtain that matter so that you could put it either directly or through an intermediary, who would use it for his own ends, which were nothing whatsover to do with a criminal investigation."