Carles Rexach played for Barca from 1965 to 1981 and saw Cruyff flourish firsthand. He would later become Cruyff’s assistant after the legendary attacking midfielder moved to the dugout, ...

Carles Rexach and Eladio Silvestre were a young winger and a veteran full-back during a challenging period for FC Barcelona in the sixties and seventies. They recently.

The commitment to a contract was written in blue ballpoint pen by Carles Rexach, the then sporting director of Barça, on the 6.5 x 6.5 inch napkin.

Gaggioli first brought Messi to the attention of Carles Rexach and Josep Minguella, another agent, who together arranged for Messi to try out for the club a few months prior to the signing.

The napkin reads: ‘In Barcelona, on 14 December 2000 and the presence of Messrs Minguella and Horacio, Carles Rexach, FC Barcelona’s sporting director, hereby agrees, under his responsibility ...

Carles Rexach, the former sporting director at Barcelona, had signed the napkin, along with Messi’s then-agent Horacio Gaggioli, who is responsible for putting together the teenaged prodigy ...

“In Barcelona, on 14 December 2000 and the presences of Messrs Minguella and Horacio, Carles Rexach, FC Barcelona’s sporting director, hereby agrees, under his responsibility and regardless of ...

Written in Spanish, the napkin states: "In Barcelona, on 14 December 2000 and the presence of Mr. Minguella and Horacio, Carles Rexach, FC Barcelona's sporting director, hereby agrees, under his ...

Minguella and Horacio, Carles Rexach, technical secretary of FC Barcelona, hereby agrees under his responsibility and against some dissenting opinions to sign the player Lionel Messi, provided ...

The paper napkin containing the agreement which saw Lionel Messi join FC Barcelona has sold for £762,400 ($966,400), auction house Bonhams, said on Friday.