{"id":36318,"date":"2021-08-05T22:44:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T18:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=36318"},"modified":"2021-08-05T22:45:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T18:45:16","slug":"lionel-messi-leaving-barcelona-after-obstacles-thwart-contract-renewal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2021\/08\/05\/lionel-messi-leaving-barcelona-after-obstacles-thwart-contract-renewal\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi leaving Barcelona after \u2018obstacles\u2019 thwart contract renewal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>arcelona have announced that Lionel Messi is leaving the club after \u201cfinancial and structural obstacles\u201d made it impossible to renew his contract. The forward, who has spent his whole career there, had been expected to re-sign after his deal expired in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDespite 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),\u201d the club said.<br><br>\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.<br><br>\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.\u201d<br><br>The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>arcelona have announced that Lionel Messi is leaving the club after \u201cfinancial and structural obstacles\u201d made it impossible to renew his contract. The forward, who has spent his whole career there, had been expected to re-sign after his deal expired in June. \u201cDespite FC Barcelona and Lionel Messi having reached an agreement and the clear &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36320,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36318\/revisions\/36320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}