{"id":150164,"date":"2019-09-07T10:53:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T09:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=150164"},"modified":"2019-09-07T10:55:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T09:55:52","slug":"barcelona-president-bartomeu-confirms-messi-can-leave-camp-nou-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=150164","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona president, Bartomeu confirms Messi can leave Camp Nou for free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Barcelona-president-Bartomeu-confirms-Messi-can-leave-Camp-Nou-for-free.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Barcelona president, Josep Maria Bartomeu on Friday admitted that captain, 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>Bartomeu is aware of the existence of the clause, but insists he is not worried about Messi quitting Barcelona any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMessi signed until 2021. It was agreed that at the end of the penultimate season he is at liberty to leave for free,\u201d the Blaugrana president told Barca TV .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has earned that freedom to decide his future, but he is very Cule and I am calm. Xavi, Iniesta and Puyol had the same clause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe couldn\u2019t give Messi a different clause, but I repeat, I am in no doubt he will stay for many years.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona president, Josep Maria Bartomeu on Friday admitted that captain, 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150165,"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":[34,10667],"class_list":["post-150164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-lionel-messi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150164","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=150164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/150165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}