Catalan newspaper Mundo Deportivo is carrying news today that Barca\u2019s heavily beleaguered president Josep Maria Bartomeu is now trying to take matters into his own hands regarding the Neymar signing. The intense operation has the supposed support of the president himself and the wholehearted support of the fans, Leo Messi and Luis Su\u00e1rez.<\/p>\n
In the preceding episode of last year\u2019s earlier saga that saw Barcelona being \u2018very close\u2019 to bringing the controversial and colourful Brazilian back to the Camp Nou, president Bartomeu vociferously claimed then that \u2018he will fight until the end\u2019 to bring Neymar back, according to reports from\u00a0Sport.<\/p>\n
Other reports simultaneously claimed that \u2018if Bartomeu decides to not bring Neymar, he will face problems with the current dressing room\u2019 at that time.<\/p>\n
Cuatro reports that Bartomeu\u2019s latest proposal for the Brazilian was to include Griezmann and Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 in the deal, allegedly.<\/p>\n
Momentarily it appears that there are two possible ways for Bartomeu to try and remove the heavy millstone hanging from his already stretched neck and he is said to be dead determined to achieve both – renewing Messi\u2019s contract above all else as his primary mission, and then pray hard to the football gods that he can move heaven and hell to bring Neymar back to the Camp Nou right before the upcoming elections, even though he is not eligible to run again for president after having served two terms in that capacity.<\/p>\n
Coach Seti\u00e9n, on the other hand, has realistically proffered his sincerest view on the matter and sees the operation as being \u2018financially difficult\u2019, alluding obviously to Barca\u2019s financial situation at present.<\/p>\n
Neymar himself has been in contact with Bar\u00e7a 5 times over his personal desire to return to the Camp Nou and leave his Parisian club. His father had even taken it upon himself to speak directly to Bartomeu last Christmas and sent him the request of his son who he said harboured regrets about leaving Bar\u00e7a, according to reports from El Mundo.<\/p>\n
Add to this developing conundrum the fact that PSG has just administered a last minute coup de grace tryst and offered Neymar a new five-year contract with a salary of 38 million euros a year to boot, and we have a whole new ball game going altogether with the summer window looming right around the corner.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s left to be seen where in tarnation Neymar is finally going to end up, considering the current deplorable economic environment that\u2019s suffocating in the throes of the snarling coronavisus pandemic that\u2019s gotten not only the entire international arena of sports, but the whole world in its vice-like coils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"