My Best Football Memory Is Barca Comeback Win Over PSG, Neymar Fires Shots
14th July 2019
Asked by online sports channel Oh My Goal about his best changing room memory, the world's most expensive player chose the aftermath of that win
- Neymar fired another shot in his battle with Paris Saint-Germain after saying his favourite football memory is Barcelona's incredible 2017 comeback win over PSG, which Neymar helped inflict on his current club
- Neymar was speaking in Sao Paulo ahead of his belated return to the club on Monday, after insisting last week that he had prior agreement from PSG to stay in Brazil to help his foundation, the Neymar Institute
- He wants out of the Parc des Princes and would prefer a return to Barca, but is struggling to find suitors due to the 222 million euros ($252 million) the capital splashed out to take him away from Barcelona two years ago
PARIS, France-
Neymar fired another shot in his battle with Paris Saint-Germain after saying
his favourite football memory is Barcelona's incredible 2017 comeback win over
PSG, which Neymar helped inflict on his current club.
Asked by online
sports channel Oh My Goal about his best changing room memory, the world's most
expensive player chose the aftermath of that win.
"We all went
crazy afterwards. I think it was the best possible feeling for all of us,"
the Brazilian star said in the interview, which was posted on Saturday.
Neymar was speaking
in Sao Paulo ahead of his belated return to the club on Monday, after insisting
last week that he had prior agreement from PSG to stay in Brazil to help his
foundation, the Neymar Institute.
His comments are set
to further strain his relationship with the club.
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He wants out of the
Parc des Princes and would prefer a return to Barca, but is struggling to find
suitors due to the 222 million euros ($252 million) the capital splashed out to
take him away from Barcelona two years ago.
The chances of him
rejoining the Catalan giants are further complicated by Antoine Griezmann's
arrival from Atletico Madrid for 120 million euros.
When Neymar missed
last Monday's first training session PSG issued a statement declaring they
would take "appropriate action" against the star.
Sporting director
Leonardo has nevertheless said that "Neymar can leave PSG if there is an
offer that suits everybody".
Later Saturday,
Neymar added fuel to the fire over a possible return to the Camp Nou, with an
Instagram post.
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It was a 10-second
video of himself in a Barcelona shirt, his father, and a quote from the Bible:
"No weapon turned against you will prosper." (Isaiah Chapter 54,
Verse 17).
Barcelona's famous
rout of Paris Saint-Germain took place in the final 16 stage of the 2017
Champions League.
PSG had won the
first leg of that Champions League last 16 tie 4-0 and were seconds away from
the quarter-finals.
Neymar scored in the
88th and 91st minutes of the famous match before setting up Sergi Roberto for a
winner five minutes into stoppage time.
That sealed their
6-1 win over PSG, who then shelled out the world-record fee to bag the
Brazilian the following summer.