{"id":253674,"date":"2020-09-02T08:45:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T07:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=253674"},"modified":"2020-09-02T08:45:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T07:45:47","slug":"im-gone-messi-tells-barcelona-as-more-revelations-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=253674","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I&#8217;m gone&#8217; &#8211; Messi tells Barcelona as more revelations emerge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Spanish football expert, Guillem Balague has revealed that Lionel Messi \u201cstopped being a Barcelona player\u201d last week.<\/p>\n<p>He said Messi has told the club that he has already left the Catalan giants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, I can tell you what his side are saying,\u201d Balague told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has stopped being a Barcelona player from August 25 when he sent the recorded delivery letter saying, \u2018I\u2019m gone\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, from this point of view in his mind he\u2019s not a Barcelona player anymore,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the prospect of the Argentine maestro joining Premier League side, Manchester City, the sports expert added, \u201cThere will be a meeting between Jorge Messi, his agent and Josep Bartomeu the president of Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now they are in different extremes. Jorge Messi is saying \u2018we want to leave for free\u2019 but Bartomeu is saying \u2018we\u2019re not letting you go\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCity are waiting. If they say it costs \u00a3100million plus his wages, they won\u2019t be able to pay all that because of Financial Fair Play.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish football expert, Guillem Balague has revealed that Lionel Messi \u201cstopped being a Barcelona player\u201d last week. He said Messi has told the club that he has already left the Catalan giants. \u201cRight now, I can tell you what his side are saying,\u201d Balague told ESPN. \u201cHe has stopped being a Barcelona player from August [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253675,"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":[34,10175,2398],"class_list":["post-253674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-man-city","tag-messi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253674","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=253674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/253675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}