{"id":27449,"date":"2021-08-14T13:53:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T13:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=27449"},"modified":"2021-08-14T13:53:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T13:53:25","slug":"messi-departure-painful-but-barca-cant-live-in-past-says-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2021\/08\/14\/messi-departure-painful-but-barca-cant-live-in-past-says-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi departure painful but Barca can&#8217;t live in past, says coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Lionel Messi is now in Barcelona&#8217;s past and the club must live in the present, coach Ronald Koeman said on Saturday, as his side prepare for a new LaLiga season without their greatest ever player &#8211; and battling through a financial crisis.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Barca are still reeling from the departure of their all-time top scorer to Paris St Germain after being unable to afford to give the Argentine a new contract.<\/p>\n<p>But Koeman said it was time to look to the future with Sunday&#8217;s game at home to Real Sociedad coming up fast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s painful for all Barcelona fans given what Messi has done for the club, but we cannot live in the past,&#8221; Koeman told a news conference. &#8220;I&#8217;m excited for the new season, and I hope the fans are enthusiastic too. We have to live in the present and not the past.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People have spoken a lot about Messi and that&#8217;s normal because of how effective he was and his quality. We won&#8217;t have him around any more, but we still have a very strong squad. There&#8217;s no excuses now, we&#8217;ve got games to play and points to win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barca did have some good news as they were able to register new signings Eric Garcia and Memphis Depay after Gerard Pique agreed to take a salary cut to help bring the club in line with the league&#8217;s financial fair play rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi is now in Barcelona&rsquo;s past and the club must live in the present, coach Ronald Koeman said on Saturday, as his side prepare for a new LaLiga season without their greatest ever player &ndash; and battling through a financial crisis. Barca are still reeling from the departure of their all-time top scorer to Paris St Germain after being unable to afford to give the Argentine a new contract. But Koeman said it was time to look to the future with Sunday&rsquo;s game at home to Real Sociedad coming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27451,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27449\/revisions\/27451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}