{"id":22406,"date":"2022-07-25T15:56:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T14:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/?p=22406"},"modified":"2022-07-25T15:56:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T14:56:14","slug":"messi-to-move-back-to-barcelona-rumour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/messi-to-move-back-to-barcelona-rumour\/rest-of-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi to Move Back to Barcelona? &#8220;Rumour&#8221;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Messi has been seen happy at PSG training, with his new fellow teammates, a year after his move there from Barcelona. This has came as a shock to everyone as this was his boyhood club, nearly. He has stated that he may return to the team if he is able to.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Barcelona had to reduce a lot of peoples wages and reduce the amount of money being spent due to the $1 billion debt that they were in. With this, Messi said that he would have a 50% pay cut to allow Barcelona to keep going, however other players said no, leaving Messi to leave the club and join PSG on a free transfer.<\/p>\n<p>The president of Barcelona has said that Messi&#8217;s chapter at Barcelona is &#8220;not over&#8221;. There could be a time in the future that Messi returns to the club that he loved so much.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rrlxWCR_ZDY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The playmaker had 21 amazing years at Barcelona, winning a lot of trophies and even starting in the majority of the games for the club before leaving due to money issues.<\/p>\n<p>Messi is named the GOAT, a word fans of football used to say who is the best player, also meaning Greatest of all Time, due to how he is on the pitch and off the pitch!<\/p>\n<p>Will this happen in the future? Or will Messi retire before then?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Banner and Image Credit:<a class=\"jss710 jss73 jss75 jss74\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/g\/alexandre+durao\">A.PAES<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Messi has been seen happy at PSG training, with his new fellow teammates, a year after his move there from Barcelona. This has came as a shock to everyone as this was his boyhood club, nearly. He has stated that he may return to the team if he is able to.\u00a0 Barcelona had to reduce&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":22407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[838,2351],"tags":[1068,885],"class_list":["post-22406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rest-of-world","category-transfer-news","tag-la-liga-news","tag-transfer-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22408,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22406\/revisions\/22408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}