{"id":664,"date":"2017-08-03T17:03:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T17:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madhousenaija.com\/?p=664"},"modified":"2017-08-03T17:03:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T17:03:56","slug":"end-era-neymar-barcelona-officially-part-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=664","title":{"rendered":"End Of An Era: Neymar, Barcelona Officially Part Ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ni-text\">\n<div class=\"ni-text-body\">\n<p>After Neymar&#8217;s first attempt to pay his release clause was turned down by La Liga, Barcelona&#8217;s director general received the cheque on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by &#8216;Mundo Deportivo&#8217;, the Brazilian&#8217;s lawyer Juan de Dios Crespo went to La Liga&#8217;s offices on Thursday morning only to see the payment of the 222-million-euro release clause turned down.<\/p>\n<p>At around 18:30, Crespo arrived at Barcelona&#8217;s HQ with the same cheque in his hand and accompanied by other lawyers and a notary, before handing over the payment to the club&#8217;s director general Oscar Grau.<\/p>\n<p>After completing the payment of the player&#8217;s buy-out clause straight to the club and avoiding going through La Liga, Neymar ceases to be a Barcelona player and is free to join Paris Saint-Germain.<\/p>\n<p>The superstar will be officially unveiled by the Ligue 1 outfit on Friday or Saturday, after signing a contract worth up to 30 million euros a year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<aside><\/aside>\n<div class=\"clearboth\"><\/div>\n<aside>\n<div class=\"ni-share ni-share-fw ni-share-big mobile-footer-share\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Neymar&#8217;s first attempt to pay his release clause was turned down by La Liga, Barcelona&#8217;s director general received the cheque on Thursday afternoon. As reported by &#8216;Mundo Deportivo&#8217;, the Brazilian&#8217;s lawyer Juan de Dios Crespo went to La Liga&#8217;s offices on Thursday morning only to see the payment of the 222-million-euro release clause turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[588,586,589,587],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-barcelona","tag-la-liga","tag-ligue-1","tag-neymar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664"}],"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=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}