The FC Barcelonaat the beginning of the term of Joan Laporta (March-April 2021)the signing of Neymar Junior (30 years). The Brazilian player is a great friend of Leo Messi and the club looked at the possibilities of trying to recover ney as a gesture towards the Argentine, whom Laporta wanted to renew since the contract ended in June 2021. In addition, Neymar wanted to get out of Paris Saint Germain if it was to return to FC Barcelonasomething that the culé entity tried under the presidency of Josep Maria Bartomeuespecially the years 2019 and 2020. Then the pandemic came and everything stopped.
Laporta came to the club after winning the elections, in March 2021, with the idea of renewing Messi and as far as possible, sign a media crack. However, he was ultimately unable to get the then Barça captain to stay.
After collecting information from Neymar and testing what his signing would entail at the transfer and file level, the club concluded that it was impossible, no matter how much it pleased Messi his return and that part of the fans validated it. Among other things because from the economic area it was warned that it would be very complicated and because at the sporting level there were also doubts.
In fact, apart from Messi ended up leaving too Griezmann before September 1 to balance the salary situation of the workforce, largely due to the advice of the former CEO Ferran Reverter. Now, seeing how the season has gone for Neymarat Barça they congratulate themselves for not having risked a large part of their heritage on a player who is in decline and who has not grown since he left for PSG in 2017, quite the opposite.
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