{"id":22679,"date":"2025-11-21T02:28:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/lionel-messi-barcelona-return-unrealistic-president-joan-laporta\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T02:28:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:28:22","slug":"lionel-messi-barcelona-return-unrealistic-president-joan-laporta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/lionel-messi-barcelona-return-unrealistic-president-joan-laporta\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi: Barcelona return unrealistic &#8211; president Joan Laporta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Barcelona president Joan Laporta says it is &#8220;unrealistic&#8221; that record goalscorer Lionel Messi will return to the club, but he wants to hold a tribute match.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Forward Messi, 37, made a surprise visit to the Nou Camp last week, saying he wants to come back, and &#8220;not just to say goodbye as a player&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The eight-time Ballon d&#8217;Or winner left Barcelona for Paris St-Germain in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He moved to Inter Miami in 2023 and last month signed a new contract which runs until 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Laporta told Catalunya Radio: &#8220;For me to make speculation that is unrealistic, nor do I think is fair, I believe that is not appropriate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cm2edm5j923o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona president Joan Laporta says it is &#8220;unrealistic&#8221; that record goalscorer Lionel Messi will return to the club, but he wants to hold a tribute match. Forward Messi, 37, made a surprise visit to the Nou Camp last week, saying he wants to come back, and &#8220;not just to say goodbye as a player&#8221;. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-football","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22681,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22679\/revisions\/22681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}