Looking ahead to the return leg of the Champions League round of 16 between PSG and Barcelona, ’L’Equipe’ reveals that Neymar called Messi
PSG footballer Neymar has reportedly contacted Barcelona star Lionel Messi to convince him to leave the Catalan club and agree to play for the Parisian team next season.
According to French newspaper ‘The team’, The Brazilian star called La ‘Pulga’ before Joan Laporta was appointed new president of Barcelona and insisted that he accept the PSG’s proposal to play together again.
“You have to come, Leo, “Neymar Messi would have said. We must remember that the Brazilian publicly expressed a few months ago his desire to share a dressing room with the Argentine.
“I would like to play with Messi again, it’s what I want most, to enjoy with him again on the court. I would put him in my place, I have no problem, I leave. I want to play with him again, for sure the year we have to do it, ”Neymar noted after a Champions League match.
For its part, Messi expressed in 2019 on the site ‘Sport’ his desire to play with Neymar and regretted that the board that led the club at the time had not made possible his return to the institution.
“The truth is, yes, I would have loved Neymar to come. I understand people who were against it. And it’s normal for everything that had happened to Ney, for how he left and how he left us. It’s normal and logical that there are a lot of people who don’t want me to come back, but thinking about it on a sporting level, for me Neymar is one of the best in the world and obviously our team would have increased the chances of getting the results that we all want. As something sporty, I would have loved for him to come back, ”he indicated.
Lionel Messi and the rest of his Barcelona teammates will face PSG tomorrow, who will not have Neymar, for the Champions League and will try to get a historic comeback in the Parc des Princes.