Barcelona star Neymar has smashed the world transfer record with a €222 million (£198m) move to Paris Saint-Germain.The Brazilian international moves to the French capital for a world record fee and has signed a five-year contract.
In 2013, after a lot of work (paying 40 million to Neymar’s father, fooling Santos, etc), Sandro Rossell finally managed to sign the next superstar, Neymar Jr.Forward 4 years to 2017, Rossell is in jail and Bartomeu’s project Neymar Jr. just backstabbed the club & left for PSG.
FC Barcelona used every trick in the book to stop Neymar Jr..From trying to buy Brazilian players like Paulinho & Coutinho to spending more money at Neymar Sr. than Messi in the last 4 years.Even FC Barcelona even took help of the LFP but can’t stop PSG.La Liga claims that that submitted a formal complaint to UEFA to make sure FFP is respected in this Neymar transfer.
As it stands, PSG will spend 0 euros on this Neymar transfer. Qatar Sports Investment(QSI) will hand Neymar 222 million who will pay his own release clause to FC Barcelona.A good way to go around Financial fair play, a very comical rule.
It is a win-win situation for all.Neymar is going to be the face of FIFA World Cup 2022,Qatar which have faced a lot of wrath in these last months.PSG is getting 3rd best player in the world after Lionel Messi & Cristiano Ronaldo & Neymar is going to be the star player of the team & won’t stay in the shadow of Messi & will challenge Messi & Ronaldo in the next Ballon d’or event.
Neymar got his way and finally he will be able to park his media tent and family in Paris, the city of light, surely much more comfortable football than Barcelona, the sea and mountain, of Romário and Cruyff, Ronaldinho and Rijkaard , Messi and Neymar himself.
There is even a certain compassion towards the board for the perverse behavior of the footballer, a consummate mocker who now seems more interested in being proclaimed as the best player in the world than in being in a team.It’s hard to imagine many Barcelona fans crying for Neymar going to PSG.
Neymar wins and provides a lot of money and also causes a lot of headaches, especially when the keys to the football industry are not dominated (money making), as seems to be the case with Barcelona. The Brazilian only seemed to make sense as a member of the trident and the trio Messi-Luis Suarez-Neymar lost his reason for being when Luis Enrique ran out.
The big winner in this Neymar transfer saga is PSG. This places them on the stage as a major player from the standpoint of not only being able to attract talent. The club will also be able to attract talent, using Neymar as bait.
The big loser in this Neymar transfer saga is Neymar, who is taking a massive risk. PSG is a top team in a third-tier league, the flat track bully who couldn’t even beat a team of kids, Monaco, to the L1 championship last season.
FC Barcelona has lost the second-best player in world football.He was a fantastic player who changed the way that Barça plays in ways that are all good but the bright side of Neymar transfer for FCB is that they can enforce their team in every way possible with transfer money.They also have more than 220m to play with in a transfer market that is only going to get crazier. Barcelona are going for the biggest talents in the world right now.From Ousmane Dembele to Countinho, Barcelona are going to splurge money to mark name of the team on world map once again after the club has lost the second best player in the game, and suffered a minor blow to its prestige as the giant clubs like FCB don’t lose players such as Neymar.
We can only wait for the next season & see who the real winner is.
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