Manchester City player Pablo Zabaleta has claimed that his Argentine 'pal' Lionel Messi has joined the growing worldwide fan club of the Premier League side. The Barcelona superstar is apparently impressed by City's 6-0 destruction of Tottenham on Sunday .
According to the Mirror, Zabaleta said that Messi has followed City's recent rise and claimed that the FIFA Ballon d'Or winner always tells him that he joined City at the perfect moment in 2008 because Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan bought the club days later, paving the way for the arrival of top quality talent such as Aguero.
Zabaleta further said that he and Messi were close friends adding that they had both known each other for a number of years while he was starting out at Espanyol and Messi at Barcelona.
According to Zabaleta, Messi always asks him about City whenever they meet for national duty
