Ahead of the second leg of the Champions League round of 16 between PSG and Barcelona, ’L’Equipe’ reveals that Neymar called Messi.
The PSG footballer, Neymar, is said to have communicated with the Barcelona star, Lionel Messi, to convince him to leave the culé club and accept to play for the Paris team next season.
According to the French newspaper ‘The team’, Brazilian star named La ‘Pulga’ before Joan Laporta was named Barcelona’s new president and insisted that he accept PSG’s proposal to play together again.
You must come, Leo, ”Neymar is said to have said to Messi. We should not forget that a few months ago the Brazilian publicly expressed his wish to share a dressing room with the Argentinian again.
“I would like to play with Messi again, that’s what I want most, enjoy him on the field again. I would put him in my place, I have no problem going out. I want to play with him again next. year we definitely have to do it ”, said Neymar after a Champions League match.
For his part, Messi expressed his desire to play with Neymar on the ‘Sport’ site in 2019 and regretted that the board that led the club at the time had not allowed his 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 how he left and how he left usIt is normal and logical that there are a lot of people who do not want him to return, but when I think about it at an athletic level, for me Neymar is one of the best in the world and of course our team had the chances of achieving results we all want. As a sporty thing, I would have loved to come back, ” he said.
Lionel Messi and the rest of his Barcelona teammates will face PSG tomorrow, that it will not have Neymar for the Champions League and they will try to make a historic comeback at the Parc des Princes.