{"id":16387,"date":"2020-08-28T12:32:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T16:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/?p=16387"},"modified":"2020-08-29T09:34:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T13:34:02","slug":"klopp-no-chance-that-messi-will-be-signed-by-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/?p=16387","title":{"rendered":"Klopp: &#8216;No Chance&#8217; That Messi Will Be Signed By Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/messi_08282020.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16388\" srcset=\"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/messi_08282020.png 600w, http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/messi_08282020-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Jurgen Klopp has laughed off a suggestion Liverpool could sign Lionel Messi \u2013 but would like to see him in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Messi has rocked the footballing world by handing in a transfer request at Barcelona, sparking huge speculation over his future.<\/p>\n<p>Klopp says he would happily take the six-time world player of the year, but concedes the Premier League champions are simply not in the market for the 33-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>The Liverpool manager said: \u201cInterest? Who doesn\u2019t want to have Messi in their team? But, no chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool\u2019s title rivals Manchester City are considered to be among the favorites to sign Messi should he leave the Nou Camp.<\/p>\n<p>A move to the Etihad Stadium would reunite Messi with his former Barca boss Pep Guardiola, under whom he won two Champions League crowns in 2009 and 2011.<\/p>\n<p>City might hold further appeal in that chairman Ferran Soriano and director of football Txiki Begiristain are also well known to Messi from their time at the Catalan club.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, there may also be a desire to link up with his friend and long-time Argentina team-mate Sergio Ag\u00fcero.<\/p>\n<p>Klopp said: \u201cIt would obviously help Manchester City and make it even more difficult to beat them, which was already very difficult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the Premier League it would be great, 100 per cent, having the best player in the world in the league.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe numbers are not for us. We don\u2019t have to start thinking about it. No chance, but, good player to be honest!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure the Premier League needs a boost but it would be a boost, for sure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be interesting to see as well. Messi never played in another league, other than Spain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActually, I would like to see it \u2013 but I\u2019m not sure I will.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-16387\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/?p=16387&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-16387\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/?p=16387&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-google-plus-1\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" data-shared=\"sharing-google-16387\" class=\"share-google-plus-1 sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/?p=16387&amp;share=google-plus-1\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Google+\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/?p=16387\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to print (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jurgen Klopp has laughed off a suggestion Liverpool could sign Lionel Messi \u2013 but would like to see him in the Premier League. Messi has rocked the footballing world by handing in a transfer request at Barcelona, sparking huge speculation&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-16387\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/?p=16387&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-16387\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/?p=16387&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-google-plus-1\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" data-shared=\"sharing-google-16387\" class=\"share-google-plus-1 sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/?p=16387&amp;share=google-plus-1\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Google+\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/?p=16387\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to print (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16387"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16389,"href":"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16387\/revisions\/16389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}