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<\/p>\nGriezmann, who has been heavily linked with a move to Barcelona last week, confirmed that he is leaving Atletico Madrid at the end of the season.<\/p>\n
Griezmann wrote on his official Twitter page: \u201cAfter speaking with [coach Diego Simeone], [CEO Miguel] Angel Gil Marin and with people in the club\u2019s hierarchy, I wanted to speak with you, the fans.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have always shown me a lot of love and I wanted to be the first to tell you that I\u2019ve taken the decision to leave to see other things and take on other challenges.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a difficult route to take, but it\u2019s what I feel I need.<\/p>\n
\u201cThanks for everything during five fantastic years here, where I was able to win my first big trophies. There have been some incredible moments that I will always remember. You, the supporters, will always be in my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, Sportskeeda is now reporting that Messi has recommended to Barcelona board that they look at Sane as an alternate to Griezmann, who almost joined Barca last summer before deciding to remain at Atletico.<\/p>\n
The report claimed that the Argentine captain believes that Sane, 23, would be a better option going forward than Griezmann, 28.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Barcelona captain, Lionel Messi has advised the club\u2019s hierarchy to sign Manchester City forward, Leroy Sane, instead of France World Cup winner, Antoine Griezmann. Griezmann, who has been heavily linked with a move to Barcelona last week, confirmed that he is leaving Atletico Madrid at the end of the season. Griezmann wrote on his official […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}