{"id":252574,"date":"2020-08-29T23:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T22:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=252574"},"modified":"2020-08-29T23:01:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T22:01:57","slug":"messi-refuses-to-return-for-barcelona-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=252574","title":{"rendered":"Messi refuses to return for Barcelona tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Lionel Messi and his lawyers have told Barcelona that the player will not return for pre-season medical tests, Goal reports.<\/p>\n<p>The LaLiga side will begin preparations for the 2020\/2021 season this weekend, with several squad members having already reported for training.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the first-team squad are still on vacation, following their 8-2 defeat to Bayern Munich in the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>However, when they start arriving for standard tests, Messi will not be among them.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old on Tuesday, informed Barca that he wants to leave this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Although his current contract is set to expire at the end of the new season, Messi and his legal team have activated a clause they believe will allow him to terminate his deal unilaterally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi and his lawyers have told Barcelona that the player will not return for pre-season medical tests, Goal reports. The LaLiga side will begin preparations for the 2020\/2021 season this weekend, with several squad members having already reported for training. Most of the first-team squad are still on vacation, following their 8-2 defeat to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252575,"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":[34,5451,2398],"class_list":["post-252574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-bayern-munich","tag-messi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252574","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=252574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/252575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}