{"id":264296,"date":"2020-09-30T08:01:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T07:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=264296"},"modified":"2020-09-30T08:06:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T07:06:07","slug":"messi-reveals-real-reason-he-wanted-to-leave-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=264296","title":{"rendered":"Messi reveals real reason he wanted to leave Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Barcelona captain, Lionel Messi, has said he acted with the club\u2019s best interests in mind, when trying to force a move away from Camp Nou this summer.<\/p>\n<p>In his first interview since he made a u-turn, Messi also accepted responsibility for his mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter so many disagreements, I would like to bring an end to everything and put aside any differences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI take responsibility for my mistakes and, if there were any, they were only to make Barcelona better and stronger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf any fans were annoyed by something that I said or did, let there be no doubt that anything I did was always with the club\u2019s best interests in mind,\u201d Messi told Diario Sport on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>After the 8-2 defeat to Bayern Munich in the Champions League in August, the 33-year-old told Barca he wanted to leave and that he thought he could do so for free per a clause in his contract.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City wanted to sign Messi, but Barca remained insisted that he could not leave for free and potential buyers would have to pay his \u20ac700million release clause.<\/p>\n<p>(DailyPost)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona captain, Lionel Messi, has said he acted with the club\u2019s best interests in mind, when trying to force a move away from Camp Nou this summer. In his first interview since he made a u-turn, Messi also accepted responsibility for his mistakes. \u201cAfter so many disagreements, I would like to bring an end to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264297,"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":[34,15461,2398,9856],"class_list":["post-264296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-koeman","tag-messi","tag-suarez"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264296","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=264296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/264297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}