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Messi completes purchase of second Spanish club

Argentine football great Lionel Messi becomes the owner of Spanish second division club CD Eldense.

— BBC Sport — Football, publisher's words · Read the original ↗

6 outlets4 languages5 countriesUpdated

Who broke it

Maxifoot

FR · FR

Followed by

5

outlets in 3 languages over 17 h 18 min.

Our read

Echo

5 outlets here, all downstream of Maxifoot. Only 2 added anything of their own, so the volume is not evidence.

Judged on the 5 outlets in our latest edition; the timeline keeps all 6 we have seen.

Coverage timeline

6 outlets · first-seen order
  1. +0 min

    MaxifootFR · FRBroke it

    Eldense : Messi devient propriétaire (officiel)

  2. +10 min

    Het Laatste Nieuws — VoetbalNL · BEOwn reporting

    Nu ook officieel: Lionel Messi neemt Spaanse tweedeklasser over

  3. +12 min

    Mirror FootballEN · GBRepeats

    Lionel Messi officially completes takeover as icon splashes out on second football club

  4. +51 min

    BBC Sport — FootballEN · GBRepeats

    Messi completes purchase of second Spanish club

  5. +7 h 33 min

    Win SportsES · CORepeats

    Lionel Messi es presentado como dueño de un nuevo equipo

  6. +17 h 18 min

    Infobae DeportesES · AROwn reporting

    Lionel Messi aterrizó en Argentina con su familia para jugar su partido despedida de la Selección: ¿estará este sábado en el Monumental?

First seen is our own clock across 245+ feeds; it is not a guarantee of who published first. Each time is the earlier of the publisher's own timestamp and our first sighting. Headlines and summaries are the publishers' own words, linked to the original. How we work out who broke it.