Wagner Ribeiro, Considered by many to be the most influential agent in South American football, he gave an interview to The team where he reviews the past and present of Neymar. The former player’s representative notes that the Real Madrid he was about to sign a couple of years ago.
Neymar is slowing down his renewal and would return to FC Barcelona
Ribeiro he remembered the first time he saw Ney, on a futsal court when he was just 12 years old. Madrid immediately became interested in him, but the president of the Santos, Marcelo Texeira, Offered him ” 10,000 euros a month ”.
Later would come the interest of the ChelseaBut the striker “did not want to go,” said the agent, who explains how from 2012 begins the intense struggle between the Real Madrid i Barcelona by the young player, who was in the Santos, Especially for a crucial call from Pell.
” Real insisted a lot, but Neymar did not want to play for Madrid. I wanted to go to Barça. He called him Messi, Piqué … But Sandro Rosell did not want me to take part in the negotiations. He left me behind and did not pay me a penny for the transfer of Neymar to Barça. I was even left out of the celebrations because I was closer to Florentino Pérez, ” he reveals Ribeiro.
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However, during the transfer of Neymar at the PSG if he intervened Wagner, When he talked to Nasser Al-Khelaifi, President of the French club. According to the representative, this meeting helped the Brazilian to earn from 11 to 28 million euros a year with the Barcelona. But the following year the striker’s departure to Paris was inevitable.
” I couldn’t refuse anymore. PSG paid Barça 222 million euros and offered him a net salary of 36 million euros a year. It is impossible to reject such an offer, ” he assumes Ribeiro.
Real Madrid tried to sign Neymar
He also notes that the Brazilian star wanted to leave the PSG and almost goes to the ‘ Real Madrid. “They were willing to pay 300 million euros, but Nasser said he wasn’t even going for 1 billion,” he confesses.
The situation of Neymar now it’s different. His ex-agent says that this year the Parisian team will lift the Champions League and the striker will do the same to win his first Ballon d’Or.
On a possible departure from Ney, Wagner Ribeiro he is clear: ” Only PSG can afford Neymar’s luxury. Real Madrid has financial problems. Boat? even worse. In Italy, no club can compete, and Manchester United or City, I don’t think so. ”