{"id":31250,"date":"2012-12-28T15:29:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T13:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=31250"},"modified":"2012-12-28T15:29:52","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T13:29:52","slug":"lionel-messi-refused-e30-million-salary-from-russian-club-anzhi-fc-barcelona-news-31250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/lionel-messi-refused-e30-million-salary-from-russian-club-anzhi-fc-barcelona-news-31250\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi refused \u20ac30 million salary from Russian club Anzhi \/ FC Barcelona News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Messi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31264\" title=\"FC Barcelona v FC Spartak Moscow - UEFA Champions League\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Messi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Messi.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Messi-280x209.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Messi-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>Huge lesson to\u00a0Russian oligarch club bosses by Argentinian world top footbal star Lionel Messi !\u00a0Sometimes money is not everything.<\/h1>\n<p>The world\u2019s top footballer Lionel Messi, has turned down a super-rich offer from Russia and decided to prolong his deal with Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>El Mundo Deportivo paper reports that an unnamed Russian Premier League side offered Messi a three-year deal with a record annual salary of \u20ac30 million.<\/p>\n<p>If the deal was struck Barcelona were to receive \u20ac250 million for the Argentine\u2019s transfer.<\/p>\n<p>Messi\u2019s father, Jorge, who\u2019s also his agent, said his son rejected the proposal because of the Russian club\u2019s vague prospects of participation in major international competitions as well as weather and the language barrier.<\/p>\n<p>On December 18, it was announced that Barcelona has prolonged the contract with their biggest star until 2018.<\/p>\n<p>There are only two Russian clubs capable of making such a generous offer for Lionel Messi.<\/p>\n<p>They are Zenit Saint Petersburg, who spent nearly \u20ac100 million on Hulk and Axel Witsel this September, and Anzhi Makhachkala, who are paying Samuel Eto\u2019o football\u2019s biggest salary of \u20ac20 million.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huge lesson to Russian oligarch club bosses by Argentinian world top footbal star Lionel Messi ! Sometimes money is not everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,135,1,118,14],"tags":[42395,18782,42383,42393,42391,42387,5664,42382,42384,6249,42392,42390,42385,42388,42394,42389],"class_list":["post-31250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-football","category-general","category-hot","category-world","tag-argentinian-lonel-messi","tag-fc-barcelona","tag-fc-barcelona-messi","tag-fc-barcelona-transfer-messi-anzhi","tag-huge-lesson-by-lionel-messi","tag-huge-lesson-to-russian-oligarch-bosses","tag-lionel-messi","tag-lionel-messi-fc-barcelona","tag-lionel-messi-refused-anzhi","tag-messi","tag-messi-refused-russian-oligarch","tag-money-is-not-everything","tag-russian-club-anzhi","tag-russian-oligarch-club-bosses","tag-russian-premier-league","tag-world-top-footbal-star-messi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}