EFE | FRANCE.- He arrived in Paris in search of a platform where nothing hid his own brightness and two years later the Brazilian Neymar He is locked in a destination that does not satisfy him and devoid of much of the prestige with which he landed.
The most expensive player of all time now appears to be the victim of his own extravagance, unable to find the exit door of Paris Saint-Germain, distanced from the stands, which he has despised, and not very close to his teammates.
From now on, he will need all his talent to return to the place he was in when in the summer of 2017 he gave the scared of Barcelona, the best placed player to attack the hegemony of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
His PSG adventure has been marked by injuries, lack of sports demands and, finally, boredom of the club and the city.
His desperate attempt to exit, slowed by the high ambitions of the Qatari owners of the entity, summarizes well the state in which he is: tied to a whim.
Your credit in Paris is depleted and each of your steps will be analyzed with magnifying glass. Much will have to convince to recover the heart of some disappointed fans with their behavior, which they consider distant to the successes that promised their status as a planetary star.
Neymar, who believed himself almighty, has collided with Qatari owners who put economic issues in the background and have turned the Brazilian into a matter of state that could not stain the reputation of an entire country.
In the PSG, the Brazilian has signed worse numbers than in his previous four seasons at the Camp Nou and, above all, has seen how the injuries left him out at the key moments of the season.
Even so, Neymar has 52 goals in 58 games in Paris, where he has helped the club win two leagues, a French Cup and a League Cup.
But it has not managed to make the club jump in quality at European level that the Qatari owners expected when in 2017 they paid the 222 million euros of the termination clause of their contract with Barcelona.
In part, for the injuries. But also because his contest in the decisive duels has not been as decisive as could be expected from a player who arrived with the poster of the third highest quality in the world.
The fifth metatarsal of the right foot has been its main enemy. He broke it on February 25, 2018 in a match against Olympique de Marseille, a few days after the first leg of the Champions League against Real Madrid and a few days before the return.
In the Bernabéu, Neymar was transparent and in the Park of the Princes his absence contributed to the generalized depression that ended the adventure in the Champions League of the team then led by Unai Emery.
The following year, when the season was approaching the decisive dates, the same small foot bone resented again, which made him miss the tie against Manchester United, again point of arrival in the round of 16 in Europe.
The team failed again without its star.
But, beyond these casualties, Neymar has left in Paris the image of a selfish and capricious player, little involved in the life of the club, far away from his teammates and more concerned with his own destiny than for the good of the entity.
The confrontation that starred as soon as they arrived with the Uruguayan Edinson Cavani triggered everything. Neymar wanted to make it clear that he was the star, although the striker Charrúa, the top historical scorer of the club, also claimed to throw the maximum penalties.
They did not hesitate to show their disagreements to the public and the cameras, while the stands showed their support for the Uruguayan.
In parallel, Neymar fed his endorsement, always surrounded by a court of flatterers, without fear of showing off his fortune.
His trips to the Brazilian carnival, his parties on both sides of the Atlantic, … his rock star life train generated little heat from the fans.
Even less as, next to him, without making so much noise, the figure of Kylian Mbappé emerged, a soccer player who cultivates humility, who barely appears outside the framework of football and who, always smiling, has won the public.
Not to mention that this work has been bearing fruit, such as the World Cup in Russia with France, to the point that Pele himself, Neymar's personal friend, appointed the French precocious as his successor.
The final lace was given by the accusations of rape that, although filed by the Brazilian police, revealed an inappropriate lifestyle for a soccer player.
The Brazilian has left in Paris a good part of the values that made him the most expensive player in the world.
He maintains the prestige of being a star, but now he has to reconcile with the fans, the club and his teammates to be the natural heir of Messi and Ronaldo again.
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