{"id":10280,"date":"2021-06-24T10:03:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T04:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=115473"},"modified":"2021-06-24T10:03:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T04:33:41","slug":"lionel-messi-to-extend-his-contract-with-barcelona-until-june-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/lionel-messi-to-extend-his-contract-with-barcelona-until-june-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi to extend his contract with Barcelona until June 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi is set to extend his contract with Barcelona until 2023. The player has reportedly not yet decided on his future at the club while his contract ends next week. There are still some clauses to be fixed in the contract structure and it\u2019s just a matter of time. The official announcement is expected soon.<\/p>\n<p>Laliga giant has recently signed Sergio Aguero and Memphis Depay, but neither the club nor the player has spoken anything regarding his future yet.<\/p>\n<p>Italian journalist, who is a transfer window specialist Fabrizio Romano confirmed that Argentina forward Messi is set to extend his contract that would keep him at the Spanish club till 2023. There are few details in the contract remaining, the reason why they have not officially announced the extension yet but it will be finalised soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLionel Messi will extend his contract with Barcelona until June 2023, all parties involved have no doubt \u2013 but there are still some clauses to be fixed in the contract \u2018structure\u2019<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">..that\u2019s why there\u2019s no official announcement yet. But it\u2019s just a matter of time,\u201d claimed Fabrizio Romano via tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lionel Messi will extend his contract with Barcelona until June 2023, all parties involved have no doubt \u2013 but there are still some clauses to be fixed in the contract \u2018structure\u2019. \ud83d\udd35\ud83d\udd34\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Messi?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Messi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2026that\u2019s why there\u2019s no official announcement yet. But it\u2019s just a matter of time.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1407875179980673026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to Le10 Sport\u2019s report, the announcement of 34 years old forward regarding his commitment could be made on his birthday today.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">There couldn\u2019t be a better occasion to announce the agreement extension other than Lionel Messi\u2019s birthday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi is set to extend his contract with Barcelona until 2023. The player has reportedly not yet decided on\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":32788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[660,681,1822,1823,238,487,328,668],"class_list":["post-10280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-argentina","tag-barca","tag-contract-extension","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-fc-barcelona","tag-lionel-messi","tag-memphis-depay","tag-sergio-aguero"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}