Engineers from the Public Works Department (PWD) carried out an inspection of the statue following complaints from local residents on Monday. Its immediate removal and relocation were ordered after the inspection found the statue's structural integrity to be severely compromised. "The statue of the Argentine football legend was found [to be] unsafe," said West Bengal state legislator Sharadwat Mukherjee. "We have noticed that the statue is swaying in the wind."
“My dream was to play for Barcelona with Guardiola and Messi. I spoke to many teams before joining City. I spoke to Real Madrid, Barcelona and United, but Leicester were asking for very high transfer fees to let me go, and I didn't have a release clause, so I couldn't join those teams.”
They told me: 'Over there, over there, there's no one there,' believing it to be an empty spot. Unaware of the situation, he took the seat, only to realise moments later that it belonged to none other than Messi himself.
"He helped me a lot from the moment he arrived at Barcelona, he was with me at all times. He gave me advice, taught me things and did everything possible so that I could be where I am today, in the first division," Messi said in 2005.
