Andres Iniesta will reportedly demand a payoff of \u00a310 million before leaving Barcelona for Chinese Super League this summer.<\/p>\n
Iniesta’s intention was revealed by Barcelona teammate Gerard Pique according to Spanish news outlet Diario Gol<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Iniesta has previously admitted that he had been linked with a move<\/a> to a Chinese Super League club.<\/p>\n Despite signing a \u2018lifetime\u2019 contract with the Catalan giants last season, the 33-year-old midfielder has made up his mind on moving to the Far East following the current European season,\u00a0Diario<\/em> writes.<\/p>\n The paper also claims that Iniesta will seek a payment exceeding the \u00a38.7m given to another club legend, Xavi Hernandez, before he joined Qatari club Al Sadd SC.<\/p>\n The Barca captain allegedly feels betrayed by the actions of star strikers Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez, who pushed for the signing of Philippe Coutinho from Liverpool during the January transfer window.<\/p>\n Iniesta’s minutes in\u00a0Ernesto Valverde\u2019s squad have dropped since\u00a0Coutinho\u2019s arrival, and they would be expected to fall even further next season once the Brazilian is eligible to play in the Champions League.<\/p>\n The player has reportedly drawn interest from\u00a0Tianjin Quanjian, a rumor the club has denied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Andres Iniesta will reportedly demand a payoff of \u00a310 million before leaving Barcelona for Chinese Super League this summer. Iniesta’s intention was revealed by Barcelona teammate Gerard Pique according to Spanish news outlet Diario Gol. Iniesta has previously admitted that he had been linked with a move to a Chinese Super League club. Despite signing a \u2018lifetime\u2019 contract with the Catalan giants last season, the 33-year-old midfielder has made up his mind on moving to the Far East following the current European season,\u00a0Diario writes. The paper also claims that Iniesta will seek a payment exceeding the \u00a38.7m given to another club legend, Xavi Hernandez, before he joined Qatari club Al … Continue reading “Andres Iniesta demands massive payoff from Barcelona ahead of move to China”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":11815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[526,124,83,228],"class_list":["post-11814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","tag-andres-iniesta","tag-barcelona","tag-chinese-super-league","tag-transfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}