The president of PSG mentioned the end of the bling-bling years, and if he did not mention Neymar, Nasser Al-Khelaifi still targeted the Brazilian star for his behavior.
In the same week, we learned that Neymar had automatically had a one-year extension with Paris Saint-Germain, until 2027, and that the president of the capital club was determined to fire the Brazilian star if this the latter did not comply with the new rules put in place by the management of PSG. Obviously, Nasser Al-Khelaifi took tweezers, because even if he rolled his eyes, the Qatari leader is not really the type to specifically target a player. But the words of the Parisian president in the regional daily sounded like a warning for the former player recruited from FC Barcelona in 2017: “ We expect all players to do much more than last season. Much more ! They must all be 100%. Obviously, we weren’t good enough to go far. For next season, the objective is clear: to work every day at 200%. Give everything we have for this jersey, and we will see the result. “Words so strong that we even talk about a departure from Neymar from this transfer window.
Neymar was not a pro, but PSG said amen!
Since then, the 30-year-old Brazilian player has been plunged into a deluge of criticism. And everyone remembers his festive nights, his late training, his gastros that are a little too regular, his trips to Brazil, finally everything that has often made people smile. Except that this time, Paris Saint-Germain no longer take it as a joke and want Neymar to change radically or risk going out, even if it is not won in a transfer window where the PSG striker and the Seleçao is no longer worth at all the 220 million euros spent in 2017 by Qatar to bring him to Ligue 1. Many people applaud the words of Nasser Al-Khelaifi, but in Le Parisien, Fabrice Pancrate points the finger at the responsibilities of the leaders of the champions of France in this drift of Neymar. ” Before the bling-bling, it was mostly a pu…. soccer player! He got a little lost in extra-sporting things, also because the Parisian context allowed him that. If there had been a certain discipline established upon his arrival, it would not have been that. “Remarks the former PSG striker in order to bring Nasser Al-Khelaifi back to reality.
It is true that Paris Saint-Germain has never dared to tighten the screw on its players, and not only concerning Neymar. Even if the latter broke all records in the genre. It had already started with Serge Aurier, who had insulted his coach at PSG, Laurent Blanc, via a video on social networks, which had not resulted in a strong sanction from Nasser Al-Khelaifi. More recently, we remember Lionel Messi and Leandro Paredes absent in training the day after the 7th Golden Ball won by the Pulga officially for a gasto, unofficially for having celebrated it and not being able to work, or worse again the soap opera between Mauro Icardi and Wanda Nara. Neymar is therefore not the only one to have slipped within the club of the capital, but the PSG must also look in a mirror.
