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Neymar Jr.’s title has as soon as once more turn into a scorching matter amongst Barcelona followers this 12 months, with stories claiming the Brazilian ahead is eager on making a return to the Catalan membership.
Whereas a return to Catalonia won’t be a chance for Neymar anymore, the participant’s shut agent and former Barcelona scout Andre Cury has just lately revealed that the ahead had a suggestion from Actual Madrid that was too good to refuse, simply earlier than his preliminary transfer to Barcelona.
How a lot had been Actual Madrid providing Neymar?
Chatting with UOL (h/t SPORT), Cury make clear the negotiations that led to the Brazilian’s arrival at Camp Nou. He recalled simply how shut Neymar was to becoming a member of Actual Madrid, who had been prepared to go to excessive lengths to safe his signature.
“The deal I’m most happy with among the many ones I did at Barcelona was the Neymar deal. He had a suggestion from Actual Madrid of greater than €100 million tax-free for him, however with work, with Messi, we managed to persuade him with a a lot decrease quantity.
“He arrived on a decrease wage, however he left Barcelona with a top-three wage,” Cury instructed UOL.
Neymar has been discovering his groove in Santos (Photograph by Miguel Schincariol/Getty Pictures)
Regardless of the tempting monetary bundle from Actual Madrid, Neymar finally selected Barcelona. His admiration for Lionel Messi and Ronaldinho performed an important function in his resolution.
Neymar himself had admitted the identical in an earlier interview, stating,
“I ended up listening to my coronary heart. My dream was to play for Barcelona. Ronaldinho, Messi. My dream was to play with Messi. And that’s after I determined to go to Barça,”
This got here on the expense of Actual Madrid’s want to signal the Brazilian ahead, who scored tonnes of objectives at Barcelona and was a part of the famed MSN trio.
Nevertheless, in 2017, Neymar left Barcelona for Paris Saint-Germain in a world-record €222 million switch.
Quick ahead to the current day, the Brazilian is at present plying his commerce for Santos, the place he has already racked up three objectives and three assists since returning to the membership.
