{"id":254052,"date":"2020-09-03T12:24:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T11:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=254052"},"modified":"2020-09-03T12:29:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T11:29:15","slug":"modric-reveals-what-will-happen-to-barcelona-when-messi-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=254052","title":{"rendered":"Modric reveals what will happen to Barcelona when Messi leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Real Madrid\u2019s Luka Modric has said Barcelona can succeed without Lionel Messi.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Croatian, Los Blancos also coped with Cristiano Ronaldo\u2019s exit.<\/p>\n<p>Madrid snatched the LaLiga title from Barca last season, their biggest piece of silverware since Ronaldo left for Juventus in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Though Los Blancos have struggled in the Champions League since they lost their Portuguese star, they have eventually adapted to his absence.<\/p>\n<p>With Messi pushing for an exit from the Camp Nou, Modric sees similarities between the two situations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be a huge loss. Like when Cristiano left. But you can\u2019t think about the past. It\u2019s football and that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it happens it will be a huge loss for the prestige of the league. But we need to go forward. Other players will become stars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Ronaldo left, the same thing happened, the life of Real Madrid went on without him and it will be the same for Barcelona and La Liga without Messi,\u201d Modric told Goal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid\u2019s Luka Modric has said Barcelona can succeed without Lionel Messi. According to the Croatian, Los Blancos also coped with Cristiano Ronaldo\u2019s exit. Madrid snatched the LaLiga title from Barca last season, their biggest piece of silverware since Ronaldo left for Juventus in 2018. Though Los Blancos have struggled in the Champions League since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254053,"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":[34,2398,8000,5278],"class_list":["post-254052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-messi","tag-modric","tag-real-madrid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254052","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=254052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/254053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}