{"id":251271,"date":"2020-08-26T10:11:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T09:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=251271"},"modified":"2020-08-26T10:58:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T09:58:48","slug":"puyol-luis-suarez-react-as-messi-submits-transfer-request-at-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=251271","title":{"rendered":"Puyol, Luis Suarez react as Messi submits transfer request at Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Former Barcelona captain Carles Puyol and current forward Luis Suarez, have reacted to news that Lionel Messi has demanded to leave the club.<\/p>\n<p>Messi sent a burofax to the club on Tuesday, asking for his contract to be terminated, so he can leave for free.<\/p>\n<p>Puyol, who played with Messi during the early stages of the Argentine\u2019s career, took to Twitter to post a message in Spanish which translated as: \u201cRespect and admiration, Leo. You have my full support, my friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Suarez, who is also rumoured to be leaving the Camp Nou this summer, replied by simply posting two applause emojis.<\/p>\n<p>Messi is believed to have been considering his future, since Barca were thrashed 8-2 by Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarter-final.<\/p>\n<p>Before then, the 33-year-old had fallen out with a number of senior figures behind the scenes at the club, including former director Eric Abidal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Barcelona captain Carles Puyol and current forward Luis Suarez, have reacted to news that Lionel Messi has demanded to leave the club. Messi sent a burofax to the club on Tuesday, asking for his contract to be terminated, so he can leave for free. Puyol, who played with Messi during the early stages of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251272,"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":[30,34,15463,9856],"class_list":["post-251271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-arewa","tag-barcelona","tag-puyol","tag-suarez"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251271","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=251271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/251272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}