{"id":116628,"date":"2021-08-17T13:48:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T13:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=116628"},"modified":"2021-08-19T15:37:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T15:37:19","slug":"laporta-bemoans-sad-barcelona-exit-for-messi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=116628","title":{"rendered":"Laporta bemoans \u2018sad\u2019 Barcelona exit for Messi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                Barcelona president Joan Laporta has described Lionel Messi\u2019s epochal departure as \u201csad, but it was necessary\u201d.<br \/>\nMessi, 34, joined Paris Saint-Germain last week in a seismic free transfer after serious financial issues ensured the Catalans could not extend his historic 21-year stay.<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019re convinced that we have taken the decisions that needed to be taken,\u201d said Laporta.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Messi issue is sad, but it was necessary. Because the institution is above everything.<br \/>\n\u201cWe would have put ourselves in a lot of risk. It\u2019s a dramatic situation.<br \/>\n\u201cThere\u2019s a solution, but it\u2019s dramatic. If this happened later we would have had one or two more years of Messi, but we have the situation now.\u201d<br \/>\nBarca beat Real Sociedad 4-2 this weekend in their first competitive match since Messi\u2019s exit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Barcelona president Joan Laporta has described Lionel Messi\u2019s epochal departure as \u201csad, but it was necessary\u201d.<br \/>\nMessi, 34, joined Paris Saint-Germain last week in a seismic free transfer after serious financial issues ensured the Catalans could not extend his historic 21-year stay.<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019re convinced that we have taken the decisions that needed to be taken,\u201d said Laporta.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Messi issue is sad, but it was necessary. Because the institution is above everything.<br \/>\n\u201cWe would have put ourselves in a lot of risk. It\u2019s a dramatic situation.<br \/>\n\u201cThere\u2019s a solution, but it\u2019s dramatic. If this happened later we would have had one or two more years of Messi, but we have the situation now.\u201d<br \/>\nBarca beat Real Sociedad 4-2 this weekend in their first competitive match since Messi\u2019s exit.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116631,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116628\/revisions\/116631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}