{"id":2693,"date":"2017-11-09T09:40:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T09:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/?p=2693"},"modified":"2017-11-09T09:55:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T09:55:36","slug":"lionels-future-getting-messi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/news-events\/lionels-future-getting-messi\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel&#8217;s future getting Messi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi is now refusing to talk about his future, and Bookmakers are starting to react.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to when noises emerged from Spain about Neymar moving &#8211; could it happen again with their prized asset?<\/p>\n<p>Bookmakers are now cutting the odds on Messi moving in January, as at this moment in time he would be allowed to sign a pre-contract in the New Year with a club such as Manchester City as his current deal at Barcelona expires in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whilst Messi&#8217;s new deal remains unsigned, it is only natural that the odds will start to come in with Manchester City the clear favourites to land him,&#8221; said OddsMonkey spokesman Peter Watton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At 16\/1 clearly the Bookmakers don&#8217;t think he is going at this stage &#8211; but the fact he has come in so much in recent days shows the Punters are sniffing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we get January, and no new deal is signed &#8211; his odds will come down further, that is for sure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lionel Messi odds to move in January:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Man City 16\/1<br \/>\nChelsea 33\/1<br \/>\nAny Chinese Club 40\/1<br \/>\nJuventus 50\/1<br \/>\nPSG 50\/1<br \/>\nMan Utd 66\/1<br \/>\nAny MLS Club 100\/1<br \/>\nReal Madrid 100\/1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi is now refusing to talk about his future, and Bookmakers are starting to react. Similar to when noises emerged from Spain about Neymar moving &#8211; could it happen again with their prized asset? Bookmakers are now cutting the odds on Messi moving in January, as at this moment in time he would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":""},"categories":[841,74,1640],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[2939,2813,2943,115,774,3166,2792,494,2689,2690,3165,2159,2475,2691,1931,3164,2739],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2693"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2695,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions\/2695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2693"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}