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  Reuniting the Argentinian with Pep Guardiola would set the Premier League alight, and transform the way City are viewed A fantasy? Messi reunited with Pep Guardiola, under whom at Barcelona from 2008-12 the Argentinian produced some of the most scintillating form of his glittering career? Messi, the Barça boy and man who joined the Catalan club as a quiet 13-year-old and matured into the Blaugrana’s greatest footballer and one of the best in the game’s history, leaving to sign for City to perform again for Guardiola? The stance at the Etihad Stadium is that Messi is a supreme footballer and Guardiola continues to admire the player rated as the finest he has managed. And that, actually, it could be possible to sign him. City certainly believe they have a chance of pulling off a deal for the ages. A chance of taking Messi from his spiritual football home to a new challenge in east Manchester in what would be the signing of the Premier League era if not any era of a domestic game that d