{"id":212019,"date":"2022-01-28T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technosports.co.in\/?p=212019"},"modified":"2022-01-28T23:07:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T17:37:09","slug":"gerard-pique-lionel-messis-old-buddy-and-barcelona-teammate-has-deceived-and-misled-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technosports.co.in\/gerard-pique-lionel-messis-old-buddy-and-barcelona-teammate-has-deceived-and-misled-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerard Pique, Lionel Messi’s old buddy and Barcelona teammate, has deceived and misled him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the aftermath of the contract saga that saw the former Barcelona<\/a> great forced to quit the club, Lionel Messi is said to be ‘disappointed’ with Gerard Pique. Both players had a good bond while at the Nou Camp, but they parted ways in the summer, with Messi opting for a free transfer to Paris Saint-Germain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parting Ways from Nou Camp<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The crisis-hit Catalans were unable to raise the necessary finances to secure the seven-time Ballon d’Or winner, despite a last-minute dash. Jordi Alba and Sergio Busquets also took pay sacrifices to make a place for Messi to stay, but their efforts were ultimately in vain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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credits – sportsloveme.com<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Pique, on the other hand, did not make a significant change to his salary package until after Messi had left, a circumstance that the latter is claimed to be still resentful of. Messi, who was given a sabbatical by PSG, recently returned to Barcelona and spent some of his free time eating dinner with former teammates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Pique, his old pal, was not present, the mercurial striker was joined by both Busquets and Alba at a high-end Japanese restaurant on Monday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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credits – talksport.com<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Messi Feeling Deceived<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The experienced center defender was not invited to the get-together, according to Sport. Messi feels ‘deceived’ by Pique, according to journalist Lluis Canut. He told Onze on TV3: ‘The last contract renewal signed by Pique did a lot of damage to Messi and he felt disappointed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn part, he also felt deceived by Pique, because [he then didn’t further reduce his contract] until Messi left the club and Messi felt he should have done that earlier to try and avoid his exit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Onda Cero reporter Alfredo Martinez said their relationship is ‘broken.’ Pique admitted a month ago that it was difficult to see Messi leave his boyhood club and praised him as the ‘greatest in history.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have shared a dressing room since I was 13 years old, he is almost like a brother, and it was very hard on a sporting and personal level,’ he told El Homiguero.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis year things have not started well in part because the best in history has left us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read: Here\u2019s how Barcelona are planning massive squad improvements in the summer of 2022<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the aftermath of the contract saga that saw the former Barcelona great forced to quit the club, Lionel Messi is said to be ‘disappointed’ with Gerard Pique. Both players had a good bond while at the Nou Camp, but they parted ways in the summer, with Messi opting for a free transfer to Paris […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2807,"featured_media":212020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7633,10],"tags":[15,423741,10784,12],"class_list":{"0":"post-212019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"category-sports","9":"tag-barcelona","10":"tag-deceived","11":"tag-gerard-pique","12":"tag-lionel-messi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technosports.co.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technosports.co.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technosports.co.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technosports.co.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technosports.co.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/technosports.co.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technosports.co.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technosports.co.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technosports.co.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technosports.co.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}