Messi confirms, "I wanted Neymar to come back"

It has been known for over a month now: Neymar is still a PSG player and has not returned to Barça. However, the support of his former teammates in Catalonia had not failed to flock this summer. Among them, and not least, that of Lionel Messi. This Wednesday at the microphone of the Spanish radio RAC1, the Argentine has confirmed this position.

"From a sporting point of view, I wanted him to come back"

"He is one of the best players in the world," he said at first. "He is able to unbalance, make differences … I understand that people have taken into account other aspects, how he left for example, and that there are socios who did not want it It was difficult, but for the sporting aspect, I wanted him to come back, I did not say it to go against my direction or play against them, I said it because I did not know anything. was not in negotiations, many thought I was doing the transfers when I said I did not know if he would come back because I was not in the negotiations, I know what I was talking about with "Ney "but I did not know the other part."

"I think Neymar is sorry to be gone"

More surprisingly, Messi confides his impression on the Brazilian's regrets of having left Catalonia in 2017. "From what I think, I think that Neymar is sorry to have left. that he was wrong, that he had made a bad decision, and knowing him and seeing what was going on, I think it was, I was thinking of a moment in the transfer window He would not go here, he would go to Madrid because he really wanted to leave and really expressed it, I thought that Florentino and Madrid would do something. "

"Is his return discarded?" I do not dismiss anything. "The president said that today it was not possible but that in the future he would see if the door is open."