{"id":346391,"date":"2021-05-01T09:26:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T08:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=346391"},"modified":"2021-05-01T09:32:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T08:32:13","slug":"messi-offered-10-year-barcelona-contract-for-half-salary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=346391","title":{"rendered":"Messi &#8216;offered 10-year Barcelona contract&#8217; for half salary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Barcelona have offered Lionel Messi a new 10-year contract on half of his current salary, according to Deportes Cuatro.<br \/>\nThe club\u2019s president, Joan Laporta, is desperate to keep the 33-year-old whose deal runs out at the end of this season.<br \/>\nMessi is believed to be attracting interest from Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain.<br \/>\nHowever, with Laporta back at the helm of the Spanish giants, the chances of Messi staying in Spain have increased significantly.<br \/>\nBut Messi will have to halve his current wages if he agrees and Barcelona are prepared to extend his terms by 10 years in a bid to cover his losses.<br \/>\nThat does not necessarily mean that the Argentine will stay at Barcelona, with the agreement also stating that the player wants a spell in the MLS after two years, when his time at the Nou Camp is done.<br \/>\nMessi will be 35 at that time and still be under contract.<br \/>\nThis is when he plans to retire and return to Barcelona as a life-time member of the club, similar to the type of deal Andres Iniesta has.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona have offered Lionel Messi a new 10-year contract on half of his current salary, according to Deportes Cuatro. The club\u2019s president, Joan Laporta, is desperate to keep the 33-year-old whose deal runs out at the end of this season. Messi is believed to be attracting interest from Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain. However, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":346392,"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":[34,10667,15415],"class_list":["post-346391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-lionel-messi","tag-ronald-koeman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346391","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=346391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/346392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}