{"id":296897,"date":"2022-10-04T17:19:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T15:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=296897"},"modified":"2022-10-04T17:20:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T15:20:41","slug":"zalgiris-kaunas-gm-paulius-motiejunas-criticizes-real-madrid-and-barcelonas-spending-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/zalgiris-kaunas-gm-paulius-motiejunas-criticizes-real-madrid-and-barcelonas-spending-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Zalgiris Kaunas GM Paulius Motiejunas criticizes Real Madrid and Barcelona\u2019s spending politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zalgiris Kaunas GM Paulius Motiejunas criticized Real Madrid and Barcelona\u2019s spending politics.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/barcelona-and-real-madrid-combine-for-over-e60m-loss-in-2021-22\/\">The two Spanish powerhouses had losses for over \u20ac60M combined last season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Per <a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/news-178811-zalgiris-gm-takes-a-jab-at-huge-real-and-barcelona-losses.html\">Basketnews<\/a>, &#8220;We saw\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/news-178778-maccabi-tel-avivs-current-season-budget-gets-revealed.html\">Maccabi&#8217;s budget<\/a>\u00a0yesterday. Capacity has increased significantly and there are several reasons. First of all, not many players arrived from the United States due to COVID-19. Moreover, the pool of basketball players with EuroLeague experience reduced and that raised the prices,&#8221; commented Zalgiris GM\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/news-178810-zalgiris-present-increased-budget-for-upcoming-season.html\">in a press conference about financial numbers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We see the losses of FC Barcelona and Real Madrid. It&#8217;s going to lead us nowhere, we have to think about how to reduce spending,&#8221; Motiejunas continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After that, we end up making harm to ourselves and raising prices. Capabilities have definitely increased and it&#8217;s getting harder and harder to get into the Top 8.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zalgiris Kaunas GM Paulius Motiejunas criticized Real Madrid and Barcelona\u2019s spending politics with losses for over \u20ac60M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":213823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[305,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-296897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/05\/RS351567_J31-HGC-BAR-Firmar-acb-Photo-F-Robledano-lpr.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296897"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=296897"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=296897"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=296897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}