Sources: Barcelona's Gerard Pique was close to Notts County purchase




Barcelona defender Gerard Pique was close to putting together a deal to buy English club Notts County this summer, sources have told ESPN FC.
Sources have confirmed to ESPN FC that Pique was "close" to adding County -- who play in the National League, the fifth tier of English football -- to his growing number of businesses away from Barca.
Pique's Kosmos Global Holding group held talks with County's former owner Alan Hardy in London earlier this year. However, with a court date pending over an...