{"id":5011,"date":"2021-08-05T18:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T18:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=5011"},"modified":"2021-08-05T18:18:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T18:18:28","slug":"breaking-messi-leaves-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=5011","title":{"rendered":"Breaking! Messi Leaves Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona have confirmed that Leo Messi is leaving the club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lionel Messi will not continue linked to FC Barcelona. Both parties deeply regret that the wishes of both the player and the Club cannot finally be fulfilled,&#8221; the club statement reads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The statement reads,\u201dDespite FC Barcelona and Lionel Messi having reached an agreement and the clear intention of both parties to sign a new contract today, this cannot happen because of financial and structural obstacles (Spanish Liga regulations).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAs a result of this situation, Messi shall not be staying on at FC Barcelona. Both parties deeply regret that the wishes of the player and the club will ultimately not be fulfilled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cFC Barcelona wholeheartedly expresses its gratitude to the player for his contribution to the aggrandisement of the club and wishes him all the very best for the future in his personal and professional life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona have confirmed that Leo Messi is leaving the club. &#8220;Lionel Messi will not continue linked to FC Barcelona. Both parties deeply regret that the wishes of both the player and the Club cannot finally be fulfilled,&#8221; the club statement reads. The statement reads,\u201dDespite FC Barcelona and Lionel Messi having reached an agreement and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[588,586,54],"class_list":["post-5011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports","tag-barcelona","tag-la-liga","tag-messi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011"}],"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=5011"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5016,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions\/5016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}