{"id":268829,"date":"2020-10-12T08:17:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T07:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=268829"},"modified":"2020-10-12T08:17:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T07:17:33","slug":"laliga-koeman-reveals-what-he-told-messi-about-suarezs-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=268829","title":{"rendered":"LaLiga: Koeman reveals what he told Messi about Suarez&#8217;s departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Barcelona manager, Ronald Koeman, has revealed what he told Lionel Messi about Luis Suarez\u2019s exit from the club this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Koeman, speaking to NOS, said Suarez could have stayed at the Camp Nou, but it was the club\u2019s decision to let him leave.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old striker went on to join Atleti for \u00a35m, after a potential move to Juventus broke down.<\/p>\n<p>Suarez enjoyed six successful years at the Nou Camp, winning a Champions League and four LaLiga titles.<\/p>\n<p>Messi was especially critical of Barcelona\u2019s handling of Suarez\u2019s departure and Koeman revealed he has discussed the matter with him.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cIf you have someone in the locker room with whom you and your wife and children also hang out outside football, then such a reaction makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also said that to Messi: \u201cI understand that you are disappointed and think it is a terrible shame that he is leaving, but these are choices of the club\u201d.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona manager, Ronald Koeman, has revealed what he told Lionel Messi about Luis Suarez\u2019s exit from the club this summer. Koeman, speaking to NOS, said Suarez could have stayed at the Camp Nou, but it was the club\u2019s decision to let him leave. The 33-year-old striker went on to join Atleti for \u00a35m, after a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":268830,"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":[8798,2398,15415],"class_list":["post-268829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-luis-suarez","tag-messi","tag-ronald-koeman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268829","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=268829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/268830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}