Deccan Chronicle

Neymar wants to return to Barca

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Madrid, March 9: Neymar already regrets moving to Paris SaintGerma­in and is seeking a shock return to Barcelona, according to reports in the Spanish media on Friday.

In the same week that PSG crashed out of the Champions League, and only seven months after he joined the club for a world record 222 million euros (USD 264 million), Neymar’s future become uncertain.

Spanish sports newspaper Mundo Deportivo claims the Brazilian, recovering from surgery on a broken foot in Brazil, has made contact with Barca to ask how he can engineer a return.

The article adds Neymar has explained he made a mistake in leaving the club, was wrong to want has DECCAN CHRONICLE independen­ce from Lionel Messi and has been disappoint­ed by the standard of opposition in the French league.

Barca, however, is not the only club Neymar is reportedly targeting as a potential way out of PSG.

Madrid-based newspaper AS reports Neymar’s father has met with Real Madrid, who are ready to pay 400 million euros to SATURDAY | 10 MARCH 2018 | HYDERABAD sign the striker. Asked about the speculatio­n on Friday, Real coach Zinedine Zidane said: “Neymar could play in all the clubs because he is very good, like many players.”

Mundo Deportivo concedes Neymar’s courting of Barcelona may even be a tactic to justify a move to Real, given the Catalan club are likely to reject any chance to re-sign the 26year-old.

Barcelona are still embroiled in a financial dispute over a bonus due to Neymar last summer, which the club cancelled when they believe it became clear he was moving to PSG. Neymar missed PSG’s last 16 loss to Real on Tuesday after undergoing surgery on a broken foot in Brazil last week. — AFP

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