Before the second stage of the eighth Champions League between PSG and Barcelona, ”L’Equipe” reveals that Neymar called Messi
PSG footballer Neymar has reportedly communicated with Barcelona star Lionel Messi to persuade him to leave the culé club and agree to play for the Parisian team next season.
According to the French newspaper ‘Team’, the Brazilian star called La ‘Pulga’ before Joan Laporta was named the new president of Barcelona and insisted on accepting PSG’s proposal to play together again.
“You have to come, Leo, “Neymar would have said to Messi. We should remember that the Brazilian publicly expressed a few months ago his desire to share a dressing room with the Argentine again.
“I would like to play with Messi again, it’s what I want most, to be happy with him on the pitch again. I would put him in my place, I have no problem, I go out. I want to I play with him again, of course we have to do it next year, “Neymar said after a Champions League match.
In turn, In 2019, Messi expressed his desire to play with Neymar on the “Sport” website and regretted that the board that ran the club at that time did not make it possible for him to return to the institution.
“The truth is, yes, I would have liked Neymar to come. I understand the people who were against it. And it’s normal because of everything that happened to Ney, because of the way he left and our departure.. It is normal and logical that there are many people who do not want him to return, but thinking about it at a sporting level, for me Neymar is one of the best in the world and obviously our team would have increased the chances of achieve results we all want. As a sportsman, I would have liked him to come back, “he said.
Lionel Messi and the rest of his Barcelona team-mates will face PSG tomorrow, that he will not have Neymar for the Champions League and will try to get a historic comeback in the Parc des Princes.