{"id":282921,"date":"2020-11-18T08:07:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T07:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=282921"},"modified":"2020-11-18T08:10:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T07:10:47","slug":"laliga-ready-for-messis-departure-from-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=282921","title":{"rendered":"LaLiga &#8216;ready&#8217; for Messi&#8217;s departure from Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Laliga president, Javier Tebas, has insisted they are ready for Lionel Messi\u2019s exit from Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the Spanish topflight coped well after Neymar and Cristiano Ronaldo left.<\/p>\n<p>Tebas does not believe Messi\u2019s departure would have any more an impact.<\/p>\n<p>However, he again criticised what he deems as unfair financial practises of Manchester City, who have been the club most strongly linked with signing Messi from Barca.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would prefer Messi to stay in La Liga but Ronaldo and Neymar left and we have not noticed any difference,\u201d Tebas said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are ready.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems the only club in the Premier League that talks about registering Messi is Manchester City, who compete outside the rules.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not the only one saying this. City is neither affected by Covid or pandemics or anything because they are financed differently and it is impossible to fight against that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laliga president, Javier Tebas, has insisted they are ready for Lionel Messi\u2019s exit from Barcelona. According to him, the Spanish topflight coped well after Neymar and Cristiano Ronaldo left. Tebas does not believe Messi\u2019s departure would have any more an impact. However, he again criticised what he deems as unfair financial practises of Manchester City, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":282922,"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":[34,4923,2398],"class_list":["post-282921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-laliga","tag-messi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282921","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=282921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/282922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}