Valencia did not sell me/ the legend of City was one step away from becoming Barca!

David Silva says he had offers from Barcelona but Valencia refused to sell him.

According to "Verzeh Se", David Silva is one of our football legends. The player from the Canary Islands had a brilliant career and won many trophies with both Manchester City and the Spanish national team. He won a World Cup and two European Nations Cups with the Spanish national team.

Looking back on his football career, Silva, who joined Valencia in 2000 at the age of 14, admits his football career could have taken a turn in 2008 when Barcelona came close to signing him. "In 2008, Tiki called me when we won the European Cup with the national team," he told the El Camino de Mario podcast. At that time he was in Barcelona.

But at that time, Valencia did not intend to sell. Later they faced financial problems and sold me and Gwakha the villa. The best decision was to go to City, I had a fantastic 10 years there and the people treated me fantastic. There were always rumours, such as interest from Real Madrid, but none of them came to fruition.

When I came back from South Africa, my goal was to go to City. In November, Mancini called me regularly. He was very interested in attracting me. "To play 125 matches for the national team was a great achievement, especially at City, who were not that strong at the time."

He played a total of 436 games for City, winning 14 trophies and scoring 77 goals.