{"id":135356,"date":"2019-07-13T09:54:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T08:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=135356"},"modified":"2019-07-13T11:16:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T10:16:10","slug":"transfer-atletico-say-e120m-barcelona-paid-for-griezmann-not-enough-full-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=135356","title":{"rendered":"Transfer: Atl\u00e9tico say \u20ac120m Barcelona paid for Griezmann not enough [Full statement]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/BREAKING-Barcelona-announce-Griezmann-signing.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Atl\u00e9tico Madrid have released a statement, saying the \u20ac120million paid for Antoine Griezmann in La Liga\u2019s offices on Friday afternoon, is not sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona officially announced Griezmann as their newest addition today, shortly after his lawyers deposited the money into La Liga\u2019s headquarters in Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>But Atletico insist the agreement between Barcelona and Griezmann was reached before his release clause dropped from \u20ac200million to \u20ac120million on July 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe amount deposited is insufficient to pay his release clause because it\u2019s obvious that the agreement between the club and Barcelona was done before his fee dropped from \u20ac200 to \u20ac120 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAtl\u00e9tico Madrid understand that the contract was broken before the end of last season, on the basis of the facts, actions and statements of the player and the club has therefore started the proceedings it considers opportune to defend its legitimate rights and interests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAtleti are disgusted by the behaviour of Barcelona and the player and particularly Barcelona, for inducing a player to break their contractual relationship with Atl\u00e9tico Madrid at a time in the season when the club was playing, not just a Champions League tie against Juventus, but also the League title against Barcelona itself,\u201d the statement read.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atl\u00e9tico Madrid have released a statement, saying the \u20ac120million paid for Antoine Griezmann in La Liga\u2019s offices on Friday afternoon, is not sufficient. Barcelona officially announced Griezmann as their newest addition today, shortly after his lawyers deposited the money into La Liga\u2019s headquarters in Madrid. But Atletico insist the agreement between Barcelona and Griezmann was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135219,"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-135356","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\/135356","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=135356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/135219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}