{"id":149859,"date":"2019-09-06T08:18:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T07:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=149859"},"modified":"2019-09-06T08:21:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T07:21:32","slug":"laliga-messi-can-leave-barcelona-for-free-says-pique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=149859","title":{"rendered":"LaLiga: Messi can leave Barcelona for free, says Pique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Copa-America-2019-Lionel-Messi-named-best-player-in-history.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>Barcelona defender, Gerard Pique, has admitted Lionel Messi can walk away from the club for free next summer.<\/p>\n<p>Messi has a contract at Camp Nou until 2021, but it has been revealed there\u2019s a clause which allows him to leave at the end of each season if he so wishes. <\/p>\n<p>The Argentina international would just have to communicate his desire to move on before the end of May.<\/p>\n<p>Carles Puyol, Xavi Hernandez and Andres Iniesta all signed similar deals with Barca in the final years of their time at the club, too.<\/p>\n<p>Pique is aware of the existence of the clause, but insists he is not worried about Messi quitting Barcelona any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI already knew Messi is able to leave for free at the end of each season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we all know the commitment Leo has to Barca and it doesn\u2019t worry me at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s earned the right to be able to choose what he does with his future after everything he\u2019s given the club,\u201d Pique told Cadena Ser.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona defender, Gerard Pique, has admitted Lionel Messi can walk away from the club for free next summer. Messi has a contract at Camp Nou until 2021, but it has been revealed there\u2019s a clause which allows him to leave at the end of each season if he so wishes. The Argentina international would just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130972,"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":[34,10817,2398],"class_list":["post-149859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-gerald-pique","tag-messi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149859","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=149859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}