{"id":402665,"date":"2021-10-09T20:19:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T19:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=402665"},"modified":"2021-10-09T20:32:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T19:32:46","slug":"i-was-told-to-leave-barcelona-messi-makes-fresh-revelation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=402665","title":{"rendered":"I was told to leave Barcelona \u2013 Messi makes fresh revelation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Paris Saint-Germain forward, Lionel Messi, has insisted that he was \u201ctold\u201d to leave Barcelona after he returned to Camp Nou following his Copa America triumph with Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>Messi moved to Paris Saint-Germain from Barcelona in the summer transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old\u2019s contract at Barcelona had expired, but there was an expectation Messi would sign fresh terms with the LaLiga giants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI came back to Barcelona (from the Copa America in July) to prepare for the season, after taking advantage of the extra days of holiday that the coach (Ronald Koeman) had given me,\u201d Messi told France Football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had in mind to sign my contract and to start training right away. I thought that everything was settled and that all that was missing was my signature (on the contract).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut when I arrived in Barcelona, I was told that it was no longer possible, that I could not stay and that I had to find another club, because Barca could not afford to extend my contract. That changed my plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was extremely hard to take. To think that we would have to leave our home and that the family would have to change its routine.\u201d: \u201cI came back to Barcelona (from the Copa America in July) to prepare for the season, after taking advantage of the extra days of holiday that the coach (Ronald Koeman) had given me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had in mind to sign my contract and to start training right away. I thought that everything was settled and that all that was missing was my signature (on the contract).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut when I arrived in Barcelona, I was told that it was no longer possible, that I could not stay and that I had to find another club, because Barca could not afford to extend my contract. That changed my plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was extremely hard to take. To think that we would have to leave our home and that the family would have to change its routine.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Saint-Germain forward, Lionel Messi, has insisted that he was \u201ctold\u201d to leave Barcelona after he returned to Camp Nou following his Copa America triumph with Argentina. Messi moved to Paris Saint-Germain from Barcelona in the summer transfer window. The 34-year-old\u2019s contract at Barcelona had expired, but there was an expectation Messi would sign fresh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":402666,"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":[2658,34,4430],"class_list":["post-402665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-barcelona","tag-psg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402665","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=402665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/402666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}