With Messi's transfer to Miami, it's all of a sudden in vogue to link each 30-something famous person to an MLS transfer, and this week a report said that New York City FC had supplied a deal to Neymar. The squad has turn out to be a really tight-knit group under Xavi over the previous season and a half and the technical workers do not intend to tinker with that. The report means that the Blaugrana’s technical employees didn't have any doubts about Neymar’s quality – in spite of everything manager Xavi Hernandez even performed with him. However, Barcelona have been quick to shoot down the prospect to deliver the Brazilian celebrity again to the membership because of two causes.

Neymar turned 31 years old last February and though nonetheless relatively younger for a footballer, the reality is that it has been years and years sustaining injuries within the second half of the football schedule. PSG just launched a medical update on Brazil ahead Neymar Jr. ruling him out for the rest of the season. According to the assertion made formally by Paris Saint-Germain, Neymar will bear surgical procedure and won't practice with the group for months.

The France worldwide has been the perfect fit on the proper side of Barca's back 4, offering balance to a extra attacking left-back and permitting Barca to change to a back three if needed. The solely problem is he has been vocal about his desire to play as a centre-back. Despite that, the €50m Barca paid to Sevilla for him final summer season seems truthful at this level for his output in his first season and his potential sooner or later. Barcelona needed depth at No. 9 in January 2019, and one method or the other ended up transferring for Boateng, 31 at the time and with no real monitor report of taking part in as an out-and-out striker. He had carried out properly there with Sassuolo that season, which is what prompted Barca's curiosity, but it proved another wasted wage with 303 minutes of soccer and no targets to show for his brief stay in Catalonia. There have been 10 targets in his first 22 video games and 11 the following season, but general he didn't get near the form he had displayed at Liverpool.

He equalised earlier than half-time with a shot from outside the box and gave Brazil the lead in the second half with a penalty kick, following a controversial decision by the referee, in an eventual 3–1 win. In the third group match, he again scored twice as the Seleção defeated Cameroon 4–1 to succeed in the knockout stage. In the spherical of sixteen in opposition to Chile, the match finished 1–1 after one hundred twenty minutes and was determined by a penalty shoot-out with Neymar scoring what proved to be the profitable kick for Brazil.

As part of Barcelona's attacking trio with Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez, dubbed MSN, he won the continental treble of La Liga, the Copa del Rey, and the UEFA Champions League. Motivated to be a talisman at membership degree, Neymar transferred to PSG in 2017 in a transfer worth €222 million, making him the most costly player ever. In France, he received five league titles, amongst other honours, and was voted Ligue 1 Player of the Year in his debut season. Notably, he helped PSG attain a home quadruple within the 2019–20 season, and led the club to its first ever Champions League last. "What he does now on the pitch, he was already doing at the age of ten, eleven. Let's simply say that the tactics for tons of matches have been just to move the ball to Neymar and let him get on with it," he says. He additionally confirmed what several others have acknowledged, that Neymar isn't a show-off.

On 30 November, Neymar was shortlisted for the 2015 FIFA Ballon d'Or alongside Messi and Ronaldo, and subsequently came third. The front three of Messi, Suárez and Neymar completed the season with 131 targets, breaking the record that they had set the earlier 12 months for many goals by an attacking trio in a single season. In May, the closing month of the season, Neymar scored the last goal in a 3–0 win towards Bayern Munich in the first leg of the Champions League semi-final.

Neymar, whose full name is Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior, made his skilled football debut with the Santos Futebol Clube when he was 17. In 2017, Neymar—who was born in Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo, in Brazil—was transferred to the Paris Saint-Germain Football Club for a reported €222 million, making him one of the costly football gamers ever. In an interview with SporTV in 2015, Neymar opened up about his dream to marry and settle down. It’s something that I at all times talk about with my associates, I truly have this dream of being married in a church, going out to party with my pals and have my children by my side every single day,” he stated.

As a part of City Football Group, NYCFC have the financial might and a history of such acquisitions, bringing over David Villa, Andrea Pirlo and Frank Lampard for his or her inaugural seasons on the North American circuit. So a lot in order that Barcelona filed a lawsuit towards Neymar for a breach of contract, demanding the return of his contract renewal bonus, along with €8.5 million in damages and 10% in arrears. He won two La Liga titles and a Champions Cup with Barcelona and received three consecutive Ligue 1 titles playing for PSG. In 2017, he was featured in Time journal's listing of the 100 Most Influential People within the World.