{"id":135089,"date":"2019-07-12T08:31:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T07:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=135089"},"modified":"2019-07-12T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T07:32:00","slug":"transfer-xavi-speaks-on-neymars-return-to-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=135089","title":{"rendered":"Transfer: Xavi speaks on Neymar&#8217;s return to Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019-Copa-America-Brazil-drops-Neymar-announces-new-captain.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Former Barcelona captain, Xavi Hernandez, has admitted that Neymar\u2019s return to the club would be \u201cvery difficult\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Barca have been linked with a move for Neymar, who left Camp Nou for French giants PSG in a world-record \u20ac222million deal in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Xavi played alongside Neymar for two seasons, before moving to Qatari side Al Sadd in 2015 and the 39-year-old told Movistar: \u201cHe would be an incredible signing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I see it as being difficult, honestly. I think it\u2019s very difficult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have seen so many things that I thought I\u2019d never see though, such as PSG paying \u20ac222 million, so we\u2019ll have to wait.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no doubt that he\u2019s one of the best players in the world, but let\u2019s see what Barcelona do.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Barcelona captain, Xavi Hernandez, has admitted that Neymar\u2019s return to the club would be \u201cvery difficult\u201d. Barca have been linked with a move for Neymar, who left Camp Nou for French giants PSG in a world-record \u20ac222million deal in 2017. Xavi played alongside Neymar for two seasons, before moving to Qatari side Al Sadd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121418,"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":[34,4460],"class_list":["post-135089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-neymar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135089","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=135089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}