{"id":4574,"date":"2016-12-12T11:35:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T11:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=4574"},"modified":"2016-12-12T11:35:50","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T11:35:50","slug":"messi-tells-barcelona-chiefs-we-need-these-3-signings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2016\/12\/12\/messi-tells-barcelona-chiefs-we-need-these-3-signings\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi tells Barcelona chiefs: We need these 3 signings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi has discussed the weaknesses he sees in Barcelona`s squad with directors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Argentine has verbally agreed terms over a new deal with Barca and Don Balon says he`s also spoken with club chiefs about the signings he feels need to be made.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Messi believes they need a new right-back after losing Dani Alves to Juventus last summer. He also wants an experienced midfielder added and a better striker option than Paco Alcacer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In midfield, Messi feels they`re missing a Xavi-type, especially with Andres Iniesta struggling with his fitness this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi has discussed the weaknesses he sees in Barcelona`s squad with directors. &nbsp; The Argentine has verbally agreed terms over a new deal with Barca and Don Balon says he`s also spoken with club chiefs about the signings he feels need to be made. &nbsp; Messi believes they need a new right-back after losing Dani Alves to Juventus last summer. He also wants an experienced midfielder added and a better striker option than Paco Alcacer. &nbsp; In midfield, Messi feels they`re missing a Xavi-type, especially with Andres Iniesta struggling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4576,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574\/revisions\/4576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}