{"id":334156,"date":"2017-07-05T12:19:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T12:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=334156"},"modified":"2017-07-05T12:19:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T12:19:50","slug":"lionel-messi-agrees-new-barcelona-deal-until-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=334156","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi agrees new Barcelona deal until 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lionel Messi has\u00a0agreed\u00a0terms on a new contract at Barcelona until 2021.<\/p>\n

The club\u00a0say\u00a0the deal will be signed in the coming weeks as Messi returns for pre-season training.<\/p>\n

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“‘The club is very happy with both the renewal and the commitment of Messi, the best player in history, who has played his full professional career at Barca and has led the team to an era of extraordinary success, the likes of which has never been seen in world football,” said Barca in a statement.<\/p>\n

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Talks over a new deal were reported to have been ongoing for months, with Messi’s previous deal set to expire in June 2018. There were even rumours that the 30-year-old could move to the Premier League, but he has now committed his future to the club he joined at the age of 13.<\/p>\n

Messi is Barcelona’s record scorer with 507 goals in 583\u00a0matches,\u00a0and is also the leading scorer in La Liga history with 348 goals.<\/p>\n

He has won the Ballon d’Or on five occasions and has won 30 trophies with Barcelona, including La Liga eight times and the Champions League four times. His only trophy-less season with Barcelona came in 2007\/08.<\/p>\n

Barca\u00a0are\u00a0set to start their pre-season on July 12 under new head coach Ernesto Valverde.<\/p>\n

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Source: Sky Sports<\/p>\n

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Lionel Messi has\u00a0agreed\u00a0terms on a new contract at Barcelona until 2021. The club\u00a0say\u00a0the deal will be signed in the coming weeks as Messi returns for pre-season training. Click play to look back at some of superstar Messi’s greatest moments in a Barca shirt “‘The club is very happy with both the renewal and the commitment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=334156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}