{"id":251472,"date":"2020-08-26T23:45:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T22:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=251472"},"modified":"2020-08-26T23:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T22:48:00","slug":"messi-arrives-in-uk-begins-negotiations-with-man-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=251472","title":{"rendered":"Messi arrives in UK, begins negotiations with Man City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Jorge Messi, the father of Barcelona\u2019s Lionel Messi, has arrived in the UK and is already negotiating with Manchester City, RAC 1 reports.<\/p>\n<p>The player has made it known to the LaLiga club via fax, that he wants to leave this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Several top European teams have been placed on high-alert, including City and Paris Saint-Germain.<\/p>\n<p>However, Messi prefers a reunion with Pep Guardiola, who he worked with for four years at the Camp Nou.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed his father is discussing a two-year deal with City, although there are still question marks over if the Premier League side will have to pay a transfer fee.<\/p>\n<p>Messi believes he can activate a clause in his contract, which makes him a free agent at the end of a Barcelona season.<\/p>\n<p>However, Barca insisted that the clause expired in June, which would mean either Messi or City would have to pay the player\u2019s \u00a3630million release clause at the club.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorge Messi, the father of Barcelona\u2019s Lionel Messi, has arrived in the UK and is already negotiating with Manchester City, RAC 1 reports. The player has made it known to the LaLiga club via fax, that he wants to leave this summer. Several top European teams have been placed on high-alert, including City and Paris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251473,"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":[5006,10667,7167],"class_list":["post-251472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-guardiola","tag-lionel-messi","tag-premier-league"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251472","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=251472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/251473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}