I'm in my 6th Season as Man Utd and have won the title 4/6 seasons (just won it with 5 games spare, and am in CL/FA semi finals too). Messi hasn't been accepting the contracts from Barcelona and was available to sign on a pre contract since January, but I as many have said couldn't get him to engage in talks with me.
I literally checked every FM day, and nothing changed. Next thing I know, he's signing for ARSENAL. Man that sucked.
However, I feel the reason for this might be that his agent is the same agent of Sergio Aguero and I tried to sign S.A a few seasons back and the agent kept giving stupid contract demands and my relationship with him now is "Hatred". If only I hadn't nagged him lol.