{"id":357333,"date":"2025-12-19T04:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T04:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/357333\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T04:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T04:03:08","slug":"joan-laporta-admits-hes-sad-about-lionel-messi-situation-and-willing-to-try-and-fix-relations-with-barcelona-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/357333\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan Laporta admits he\u2019s \u2018sad\u2019 about Lionel Messi situation and willing to try and fix relations with Barcelona legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Barcelona president Joan Laporta has spoken about his relationship with Lionel Messi and admits he feels sad about how things are between the two currently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Messi is believed to still be angry at Laporta for the way he had to leave the club back in 2021 after believing he would be offered a new contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Laporta told La2CAT program \u2018Pla Seq\u00fc\u00e8ncia\u2019 that he regrets how Messi left but added: \u201cI am a Bar\u00e7a player and above all else is the institution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The club chief says he\u2019s only spoken to Messi once since: \u201cWe called each other on his birthday when he left. Alejandro (Echevarr\u00eda) put us in touch. It was an affectionate conversation, although it has had no consequences and the subject has left me sad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201d[He came] with some friends from the national team and Pepe Costa, they saw the light here, they decided to come, the head of security called the stadium coordinator and they entered the stadium,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201dIn 125 years of the club\u2019s history, Messi\u2019s moment is one of the most glorious, if not the most glorious, he must have recognition. He is someone linked to Bar\u00e7a who has more projection, he has given a lot to Bar\u00e7a and Bar\u00e7a a lot to him. Hopefully we will meet again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt depends on the other party, I am willing to fix anything&#8230; with a tribute, a statue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona president Joan Laporta has spoken about his relationship with Lionel Messi and admits he feels sad about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1480,403,99],"class_list":["post-357333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-barcelona-la-liga","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}