Barcelona could have signed Cristiano Ronaldo for £12m last summer, but they turned down the offer as they were planning to get Thierry Henry instead.
Speaking to Spanish newspaper El Mundo Deportivo, Ronaldo’s agent Jorge Mendes said that he offered the Portugal international to the Spanish champion before the World Cup, but was rejected.
Barcelona in the end failed to lure Henry, and Mendes insists they will not get another chance to land his in-form client. He said: “At this time it is impossible that he can go to Barcelona because Manchester would never let him leave, not for all the money in the world.”