Neymar

willipp said:
As for his time at PSG, i'm sorry but what exactly has he done there to go down as a great of the game?
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You could ask the same of Mbappe then? Or Cavani? Less so this season, but Neymar has been important to their previous UCL campaigns, including when they reached the final. He’s now an incredibly tactically obedient and astute player, but people still expect him to just take the ball and do everything by himself. The thing that makes me thing he’d do well with Pep is exactly that he isn’t that anymore, his tactical awareness is underrated. At PSG though, they either win the CL or their a failure. Whether that’s fair or not is another story…
 
BrazilianBlue (Gus) said:
You could ask the same of Mbappe then? Or Cavani? Less so this season, but Neymar has been important to their previous UCL campaigns, including when they reached the final. He’s now an incredibly tactically obedient and astute player, but people still expect him to just take the ball and do everything by himself. The thing that makes me thing he’d do well with Pep is exactly that he isn’t that anymore, his tactical awareness is underrated. At PSG though, they either win the CL or their a failure. Whether that’s fair or not is another story…
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If Mbappe stays at PSG his whole career and doesn't win the CL, then the same will be targeted at him. Having said that, Mbappe already has a world cup winners medal which changes the narrative people always threw at say Messi.

I do agree though if you choose to spend the best part of your career at a club like PSG and don't win the CL or other major honors, the football world will deem it a failure. I think Neymar is a fabulous player i really do, i just think in 10/15 years he won't come close to being in conversations for the greats of the game.
 
BrazilianBlue (Gus) said:
You could ask the same of Mbappe then? Or Cavani? Less so this season, but Neymar has been important to their previous UCL campaigns, including when they reached the final. He’s now an incredibly tactically obedient and astute player, but people still expect him to just take the ball and do everything by himself. The thing that makes me thing he’d do well with Pep is exactly that he isn’t that anymore, his tactical awareness is underrated. At PSG though, they either win the CL or their a failure. Whether that’s fair or not is another story…
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What else can PSG win with that squad? Ligue 1 or the French Cup whatever that's called....... so with that squad and their wages of course their measuring stick is how they perform in the Champions League, only fair given they walk that league every year barring a miracle season.

Neymar should've been a all time great. The PSG move wrecked any chance he had of that. His standing at the time where he was at Barcelona he wasn't far away, but that move no matter how much he got paid was a step backwards. Thats the simple facts of the matter.

As for the thread Neymar as a transfer target, no way. He doesn't fill a need, nor fit in with what we have, nor warrant a chance over Riyad, Phil, Jack, Gabby, Sterling or anyone else we play wide at times. He wouldn't fit in the squad with his ego and carry on so no chance we even try for him.
 
He is one of the most talented players to ever play football. But his work ethic is poor, he is an ego bomb waiting to explode, his wage demands will be insane and he is 30 years old injury prone. On the other hand he will greatly improve City in FIFA 23 so...
 
Regardless of what many think of him, I don’t want to see him at rags or scousers. If he does leave PSG hopefully he’ll go to another foreign club.
 
He is a phenomenal player and Guardiola would get him up to Ballon D'or level.

Whether or not Pep wants to take the gamble with his attitude/work rate is a different matter.
 
Semper aggressus said:
Regardless of what many think of him, I don’t want to see him at rags or scousers. If he does leave PSG hopefully he’ll go to another foreign club.
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He can sign for the rags or scousers, not that liverpool would go for him I don't think.

He is talented but lacks workrate.
 
Why has this thread been bumped?

As if City would even be interested in him.

We've just got Haaland ffs.

Are people that bored already with no City games?
 
i really really hope we go nowhere near this soft ****, I hate watching City players falling over and claiming fouls and this is the one thing he excels at

not worth the money by a long way, makes you wonder how badly Barca were run to piss 200 million away, one the best deals ever getting that much for this idiot

i'd much rather we spend the money building a bit more depth in the squad, not everyone has to be a big name player or someone that breaks the internet, having some players we can bring in to rest the likes of Dias, Rodri, KDB, Silva & Haaland and not weaken us too much helps in the long run as towards the end of the season players aren't as tired

I also want us to keep some space for the likes of Palmer, Lavia and McAtee, I'm hoping that 5 subs will help us a bit next season as we can be bringing these guys on towards the end of games if we have the result boxed off
 
deano ou812 said:
Talented player no doubt but unfortunately he’s a diving and whining horrible cnut ..
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This is so… four, five years ago? After the 2018 World Cup for which he got so much stick, the “diving and whining” was severely toned down. I dare anyone to watch him the past few years and tell me he’s anywhere near a Salah or Mane for instance. On the other hand, he’s by far the most fouled player on Ligue 1, sometimes violently, and referees don’t necessarily “protect” players there. That part gets ignored. In the last Copa América final, five Argentinian players received yellow cards from fouling him
 
SterlingSilvas said:
More pressures per 90 than Salah, Sterling, Sane, Mahrez.. weirdly.
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mccity said:
Yeah he's rather middle of the road with effort. Not a workhorse, but hardly the slouch he's often made out to be.

Compared to Mbappe he's like Tevez!
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Neymar is one of those players that people get 99% of their opinion from hearing things and not watching him.

Plenty will queue up to call him a diver, but they would absolutely implode if KDB got the treatment Neymar does in Ligue 1, he gets the absolute shit kicked out of him every single week and the referees give nothing.
 
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