Was revealed the Neymar’s opinion on his departure from FC Barcelona in 2017 to PSG
Neymar left Barça for PSG in the summer of 2017.
The brazilian star Neymar Jr surprised everyone during the summer of 2017, when he decided to leave FC Barcelona to sign for Paris Saint-Germain once the parisian club activated its termination clause of 235 million dollars! shattering the world transfer record. It was at that time that the talented forward was on his way to becoming one of the Barça legends, forming an indispensable part of the iconic ‘MSN’ threesome alongside the South Americans Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez.
His desire to excel above Leo Messi and his ambition to win the Ballon d’Or led Neymar Jr to leave the Camp Nou on his way to the Parc des Princes. However, there he was also unable to receive the highest individual award in football or manage to help the french team win the UEFA Champions League for the first time in the club’s history, being so close to achieving it with a defeat in the 2020 final against the german steamroller, Bayern Munich.
And it was after six seasons, in the summer of 2023, Neymar expressed his intentions to leave the french capital to the PSG directors and it was at that time that, according to the spanish newspaper SPORT, in those days, sports director of FC Barcelona, Deco, contacted the family of Neymar to find out their willingness to return to Barça. The blaugrana club could only opt for a loan or a minimum transfer and the options were real, but, then, the multimillion-dollar offer from Al-Hilal appeared and everything began to fall apart.
Neymar’s sentence on his departure from Barcelona
It was in recent days that the spanish newspaper SPORT referred to the novel between Neymar Jr and FC Barcelona, revealing Deco’s call to the brazilian star to explore his possible signing in the last transfer market for the culers. There, the said media pointed out that Neymar always had intentions of returning because he “feels that he made a mistake by leaving Barça”. However, after his injury, “it seems that the paths of the Brazilian and the Blaugrana club will never meet again”, they added.