Barcelona star Neymar not for sale to PSG – Bartomeu

Barcelona star Neymar not for sale to PSG – Bartomeu

Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu remarks his club have no intention of negotiating with any kind of potential buyers over Barcelona star Neymar, insisting that the Brazil captain will stay at the Camp Nou.

Barcelona star Neymar not for sale to PSG – Bartomeu

Paris Saint-Germain’s interest in Neymar dominated French media recently. The French paper states that PSG’s chairman and CEO Nasser Al-Khelaïfi are absolutely prepared to pay the 193 million required to trigger the release clause in the Brazilian’s formal contract.

Neymar’s agent, Wagner Ribero confirmed that Neymar was the French club’s recognizes number one target for next season.

Moreover speculation over his future continues in Spain and elsewhere, with L’Equipe now reporting that Paris Saint-Germain had made the 24-year-old their topmost transfer target this summer. Neymar’s agent, Wagner Ribeiro, claimed to the French newspaper that the Ligue 1 giants are readily willing to pay the forward’s €193m release clause.

Real Madrid and Manchester United have also been reportedly mentioned often as potential suitors for the highly marketable Barcelona star Neymar, but the Blaugrana chief told Globoesporte that his club were not interesting at all in talking to anyone about selling him.

“I always say that Neymar has nothing to do with this,” he said. “The only thing he said was — ‘I want to play for Barcelona.’ That was his desire. The controversy has died down a lot in the last months and I hope it ends soon with a definitive decision.”

“If anyone comes now to negotiate for Neymar, we will not authorise it,” Bartomeu said. “He will continue at Barca.”

According to L’Equipe, PSG are ready to offer Neymar a contract worth 20ma season, 5m more than what he is currently earning at Barcelona. PSG believe Neymar to be the real future of football and a potential winner of the Ballon d’Or award.

Neymar is under contract until 2018, but the tentative fact that he hasn’t renewed his contract gives hope to the Parisian club.