{"id":251269,"date":"2020-08-26T10:12:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T09:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=251269"},"modified":"2020-08-26T10:58:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T09:58:51","slug":"your-privileges-in-barcelona-are-over-details-of-koemans-chat-with-messi-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=251269","title":{"rendered":"Your privileges in Barcelona are over &#8211; Details of Koeman&#8217;s chat with Messi revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Lionel Messi decided to hand in a transfer request at Barcelona, after the new manager Ronald Koeman told him \u201cyour privileges in the squad are over\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Koeman replaced Quique Setien as manager, following a humiliating 8-2 defeat to Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutchman quickly arranged a meeting with Messi, to discuss his plans for the team moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>During the chat, Messi told Koeman that he saw himself \u201cmore out of the club than in it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Argentine news outlet Diario Ol\u00e9 claims Koeman replied Messi: \u201cYour privileges in the squad are over, you have to do everything for the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to be inflexible, you have to think about the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The candid conversation reportedly convinced Messi that now is the time for him to quit the club. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi decided to hand in a transfer request at Barcelona, after the new manager Ronald Koeman told him \u201cyour privileges in the squad are over\u201d. Koeman replaced Quique Setien as manager, following a humiliating 8-2 defeat to Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. The Dutchman quickly arranged a meeting with Messi, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251270,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,2398,15415],"class_list":["post-251269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-messi","tag-ronald-koeman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251269","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=251269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/251270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}