Despite having just moved to PSG for a record sum of money Neymar Jr and Neymar Sr, his father, are already planning the next step of his career at Real Madrid when Cristiano Ronaldo’s contract is up in 2021.
It says something about the frenzied state of football at the moment that Neymar who has just moved to Paris Saint-Germain in one of the most ludicrously expensive deals in the history of the game is already apparently thinking about his next move. The story goes that Real Madrid are so worried about their post-Ronaldo era that they have already made contact with Neymar’s father and agent to discuss the possibility of the Brazilian moving back to Spain except to Madrid and not Catalonia.
For a long time Neymar has been rumored to at lest be interested in playing for Real Madrid. Upon moving to Barcelona the Brazilian didn’t hide the fact that it was Ronaldo and not Messi whom he truly looked up to more. Real Madrid were in the race with Barcelona to sign the Santos player but balked at the record price for a player who had at that point really been entirely unproven outside of his native Brazil.
At the moment Neymar is apparently very well settled in Paris and enjoying his life. The Parisian superpower has gone out of its way to help the Brazilian by signing his friends and trying to keep him comfortable. What will be more important to Neymar though will be his success at the top-level of European competition.
Neymar always claimed that is why he left Barcelona, and though one suspects it was more money than anything, if Paris are entirely uncompetitive in winning the Champions League Neymar may again be on his way.
It would be nearly impossible to pull off a transfer for Neymar as his transfer fee was already so high and his contract is so large. That is why Real Madrid are already discussing a free transfer in 2021. That though seems unlikely as so much can change between now and then in the world of football.
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However, the possibility remains that Neymar wanted to move to Real Madrid the entire time and knew simply that he wouldn’t be able to directly from Barcelona and so he is using PSG simply as a stepping stone. Maybe, food for thought.