{"id":4944,"date":"2021-08-02T07:42:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T07:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=4944"},"modified":"2021-08-02T07:42:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T07:42:31","slug":"messi-banned-from-barcelona-trainning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=4944","title":{"rendered":"Messi \u2018Banned\u2019 From Barcelona Trainning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Lionel Messi will not be training with Barcelona until he signs a new contract at the Spanish club, according to reports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Argentine has been a free agent since July 1 but is still likely sign a new deal at the Catalan giants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Despite an announcement that Messi would sign a five-year deal the contract has yet to be signed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Due to Barcelona\u2019s financial struggles, their captain has been forced to accept a pay cut in order to remain at the Nou Camp.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The deal which is yet to be signed will reportedly see him take a 50 per cent pay cut.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">His previous contract expired on June 30 meaning that he has been a free agent since July 1 but he is unlikely to agree terms elsewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">However, Barcelona forward will not be training with his club until the new contract is signed, according to Spanish newspaper AS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Messi posted a picture of himself sipping cocktails with Luis Suarez as reports emerged that he is \u2018banned\u2019 from Barcelona training.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Argentine has been a free agent since July 1 but is expected to sign fresh terms on a new deal before the start of the La Liga season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Reports last month indicated that Messi was prepared to take a 50 percent pay cut and sign a new five-year deal with Barcelona.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But with less than two weeks until the Catalan club get their campaign underway, the 34-year-old\u2019s future is still up in the air \u2013 not that Messi seems particularly fazed by the whole affair.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi will not be training with Barcelona until he signs a new contract at the Spanish club, according to reports. The Argentine has been a free agent since July 1 but is still likely sign a new deal at the Catalan giants. Despite an announcement that Messi would sign a five-year deal the contract [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3123,588,586,885],"class_list":["post-4944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-banned","tag-barcelona","tag-la-liga","tag-leo-messi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4946,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions\/4946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}