{"id":381930,"date":"2021-08-08T19:17:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T18:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=381930"},"modified":"2021-08-08T19:24:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T18:24:45","slug":"yaya-toure-reacts-to-messis-exit-from-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=381930","title":{"rendered":"Yaya Toure reacts to Messi&#8217;s exit from Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Former Barcelona midfielder, Yaya Toure, has reacted to Lionel Messi\u2019s exit from the club.<\/p>\n<p>Toure described Messi as a special player who brought a lot of joy to Barcelona football club.<\/p>\n<p>The former Manchester City and Ivory Coast legend made the remark in a series of tweets attached to Messi\u2019s photograph.<\/p>\n<p>According to Toure: \u201cIt is very emotional to see you say goodbye to your dream club @FCBarcelona. It was my dream as a young child to play for Bar\u00e7a and to be able to play with you has made it so much more special.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat a special player you are, no other player has given so much joy, so many unforgettable moments and so much success to one club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you my friend for bringing us so much happiness. I am sure you will bring your magic to anywhere you go!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona had on Thursday announced the end of the Argentine playmmaker\u2019s contract at the club after 21 years.<\/p>\n<p>Messi\u2019s father, Jorge Messi was said to accused Laporta of using his son(Messi) to win the club\u2019s presidential election last year after he promised to keep the 6-time ballon d\u2019Or winner at the club at all cost.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment it\u2019s looking likely that PSG is the only club in the race to get the signature of the 6-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Barcelona midfielder, Yaya Toure, has reacted to Lionel Messi\u2019s exit from the club. Toure described Messi as a special player who brought a lot of joy to Barcelona football club. The former Manchester City and Ivory Coast legend made the remark in a series of tweets attached to Messi\u2019s photograph. According to Toure: \u201cIt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":381931,"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":[2658,29,10667,8795],"class_list":["post-381930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-apc","tag-lionel-messi","tag-yaya-toure"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381930","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=381930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/381931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}