{"id":135912,"date":"2025-11-12T16:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T16:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135912\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T16:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T16:14:06","slug":"lionel-messi-barcelona-return-unrealistic-president-joan-laporta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135912\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi: Barcelona return unrealistic &#8211; president Joan Laporta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona president Joan Laporta says it is &#8220;unrealistic&#8221; that record goalscorer Lionel Messi will return to the club,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-135912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}