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  • PSG forward, Neymar to have surgery on injured foot

    Paris St-Germain forward Neymar will have surgery after suffering a fractured metatarsal and sprained ankle in Sunday’s Ligue 1 win over Marseille.

    It means the 26-year-old Brazilian will miss Tuesday’s Champions League last-16 second-leg tie against Real Madrid.

    PSG coach Unai Emery initially said Neymar had a “small chance” of facing Real, before Neymar’s father said he would be out for “six to eight weeks”.

    The club said Neymar will be operated on in Brazil at the end of the week.

    PSG added that after “three days of planned care” it was a joint decision by the club’s medical staff and the Brazilian national team to opt for surgery.

    The striker joined PSG for a world record £200m fee from Barcelona last August and has scored 29 goals in 30 games.

    PSG are 14 points clear of second-placed Monaco in the league and on 6 March will host Champions League holders Real Madrid, trailing 3-1 from the first leg.

  • Neymar on target as PSG extend Ligue 1 lead to 11 points

    Neymar scored his 18th Ligue 1 goal as Paris St Germain (PSG) extended their lead to 11 points with a 3-0 win at Lille on Saturday.

    The Brazil striker fired home with a superb free kick after Yuri Berchiche had opened the scoring on the stroke of halftime.

    Giovani Lo Celso sealed a straightforward victory in the closing stages.

    The win put PSG on 62 points from 24 games with second-placed Olympique de Marseille, who hammered Metz 6-3 away on Friday, on 51.

    Lille are 17th on 25 points, one point above safety.

    PSG went ahead in the 45th minute when Berchiche netted with a low shot after the Lille defence had failed to clear Edinson Cavani’s cross.

    Neymar, who was doubtful after taking a knock earlier this week, doubled the tally with a 17-metre free kick into the top corner.

    Lo Celso then scored his first Ligue 1 goal with a fine lob over Mike Maignan in the 87th minute.

  • Neymar refutes Real Madrid links, says he’s happy at PSG

    World-record signing Neymar Jr has played down persistent speculations linking him with a move away from Paris Saint-Germain to La Liga giants Real Madrid and insists he’s happy with the Parisiens.

    The Brazilian superstar, who made a €222million transfer from Barcelona in August says he wants to make history with the French team and not thinking of leaving.

    Neymar has become an integral part of PSG despite a publicized spat with fellow forward Edinson Cavani, scoring 26 goals in 24 appearances.

    Asked about Madrid following his goalscoring display in PSG’s 4-0 rout of Montpellier Saturday, Neymar told reporters: “I’m happy with my team-mates and I’m happy at PSG.

    “I have good games and numbers and come here to make history and do my best.
    “Speculation has always existed and will always exist. Since Santos and in my years in Barcelona, ​​all the transfers windows had something with my name. It’s impossible to stay out of it.

    “But I’m happy because it means I’m a good player, and quality players are always speculated.”

  • Join us and you’ll win Ballon d’Or, Real Madrid president tells Neymar

    Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has opened the door for Neymar to join the European champions by declaring it would help further the forward’s individual ambitions.

    Neymar finished third behind Lionel Messi and winner Cristiano Ronaldo in the Ballon d‘Or on Thursday.

    But Perez has now suggested that the only way for the Brazilian to break the duo’s stranglehold on the prize — which has extended to a decade — would be to join Real.

    “Being in Madrid will make it easier to win the Ballon d‘Or,” Perez said. “Madrid is a club that gives a big player everything they need to do so. Everyone knows I wanted to sign him.”

    Perez attempted to bring Neymar to Real from Santos on several occasions before he plumped for arch-rivals FC Barcelona in 2013.

    He enjoyed success in Catalonia, helping Barca win the treble in 2015 before leaving for Paris St Germain in a world- record 222 million euro (£193.4 million) deal this year.

    In September Neymar, 25, was involved in an on-field spat with team mate Edinson Cavani over who was going to take a penalty kick.

    As a result, there has been growing media speculation that his stint in the French capital could be a brief one.

  • Brasil’s’Neymar ‘Happy’ to avoid Nigeria at World Cup

    The Brazilian superstar expressed delight after they were handed a group bereft of an African side, most importantly the Super Eagles
    Neymar has revealed that he his ‘happy’ Brazil avoided all five African teams, especially Nigeria in the Russia 2018 World Cup group stages.

    The Selecao will slug it out with Serbia, Costa Rica and Switzerland in Group E of the global showpiece as they aim to erase memories of their 2014 outing that ended awfully.

    And the PSG star who admitted they got tough oppositions, believes ‘African teams like Nigeria’ would have been an absolute nightmare.

    The fleet-footed Neymar noted the physical and energy-sapping approach of a typical African side as his main reason.

    “We [Brazil] have to be at our best to get a good result particularly in our first game of the tournament. The teams in our group are difficult to play against,” Neymar told media.

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  • My children must become footballers- Falz

    It is no longer news that Brazilian superstar Neymar has completed his world-record £198 million transfer from Barcelona to Paris St-Germain on Thursday night .With this astounding move, the deal makes him the world’s most expensive player at the moment.

    In his usual humorous fashion, Nigerian rapper and actor, Falz has reacted to the news of Neymar’s transfer stating that his children must become footballers.

    According to him:” My son and daughters must play football. Every child I give birth to must play football. They need to place their focus where focus is due.

    “We have sufficient lawyers in our family or which song do you want to sing that hasn’t been sung before? Just place your focus on this football.”

     

    Watch the video below

     

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  • Barca confirms Neymar’s departure to PSG

    Barcelona confirmed Neymar’s wish to leave the Catalan giants on Wednesday but insisted the Brazilian’s 222 million euro ($260m) buyout clause must be paid as his potential world record move to Paris Saint-Germain moved a step closer.

    “Neymar Jr, accompanied by his father and representative, communicated to FC Barcelona this morning his decision to leave the club,” Barca said in a statement.

    “The club have informed them that the buyout clause in his contract that from July 1 is 222 million euros must be paid in full.” Such a fee would smash the current record £89.3 million ($111 million, 105.2 million euros) Manchester United paid for Paul Pogba last year.

    Neymar has also been given permission to not participate in training after making a brief appearance at Barca’s training ground on Wednesday.

    Speculation over the 25-year-old’s future has dominated the first few weeks of new Barca boss Ernesto Valverde’s reign. Neymar arrived back in Barcelona on Tuesday from a fleeting promotional tour to China.

    He turned up for training at 9 am local time (0700GMT) on Wednesday morning, but left less than an hour later after telling teammates “he is leaving”, a Barca spokesperson confirmed.

    Presuming both clubs don’t come to a late agreement, the buyout clause would have to be paid to Barcelona via Spain’s La Liga to free the player from the contract he signed last year and runs until 2021.

    However, La Liga president Javier Tebas has threatened not to accept PSG’s money over what he perceives as a failure on the French side’s part to comply with UEFA’s financial fair play rules (FFP).

    Clubs can be sanctioned by UEFA for making a loss of more than 30 million euros over a three-year period. “We will not accept this money from a club like PSG,”

    Tebas told Madrid sports daily AS on Wednesday.

    “Especially when this club is infringing rules and laws.” Barcelona have also threatened to report PSG to UEFA over any potential breach of FFP.

    PSG have already been fined and saw their Champions League squad limited by UEFA for breaches of FFP in 2014.

  • La Liga drags PSG to UEFA over Neymar

    La Liga drags PSG to UEFA over Neymar

    Spain’s football league chief Javier Tebas said he will file a complaint with UEFA for financial fair play breaches against Paris Saint-Germain over their pursuit of Brazilian superstar Neymar.

    PSG are rumoured to be weighing up a bid for the Barcelona forward at more than 200 million euros, enough to trigger the 25-year-old’s transfer release clause.

    “La Liga will file this complaint because it’s a problem for La Liga’s competitiveness. Today it’s happened to Barca, tomorrow it could happen to Real Madrid, it’s happened to Atletico Madrid,” Tebas, the La Liga chairman, told Mundo Deportivo.

    Should PSG bid, and then pay, the 222 million euros needed to prise Neymar from the Catalan capital, they would struggle to meet UEFA’s financial fair play conditions that limit a team to losses of no more than 30 million euros over a three-year cycle.

    And that is despite a mega-money sponsorship deal with the Qatar tourism board.

    According to Tebas, “no-one believes” the commercial revenue figures presented by PSG to justify their spending.

    “PSG cannot have figures in which PSG’s commercial rights exceed those of Real Madrid and Barcelona,” said Tebas.

    “No-one believes that. We’ve carried out economic studies and it’s impossible.

    “It means that the Qatari state is injecting money and that violates UEFA’s financial fair play rules and the European Union’s norms of economic competition, and we’re going to file a complaint.”

    In 2014, PSG were fined 60 million euros and handed transfer spending restrictions by UEFA for breaching financial fair play rules.

    UEFA’s Club Financial Control Body has also stated that PSG’s 200 million euros a year image rights contract with the Qatari tourist board is inflated and double its “true value”.

    PSG are owned by Oryx Qatar Sports Investments.

    AFP

  • Why I want to be better than Messi, Neymar, Lewandowski, others – Ronaldo

    Why I want to be better than Messi, Neymar, Lewandowski, others – Ronaldo

    Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo says he is driven to be the best player in the world by the fear of being surpassed by the likes of Lionel Messi and Neymar.

    The 32-year-old Portugal international, who won the Ballon d’Or in January, is a firm favourite to be crowned the world’s finest footballer for the fifth time following Madrid’s triumphs in LaLiga and the Champions League in 2016-17.

    Ronaldo and long-time rival Messi have shared the Ballon d’Or and FIFA Ballon d’Or every year since 2008 and another triumph for the former Manchester United man would see him draw level with the Barcelona great on the all-time list.

    And Ronaldo admits that the “healthy” competition between the world’s finest forwards, among whom he includes Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski and Juventus’ Gonzalo Higuain, is what inspires him to strive for success.

    “To mention one [player] is hard, but the level that I am is like in other sports: Formula One, NBA…The best players always follow the best players,” he told ESPN.

    “They want to be in the top of the game because the other ones are there. You cannot rest, because the other ones will pass you.

    “Of course we fight with everyone, with Neymar, with Messi, Lewandowski, Higuain, with the best players in the world. This is not ‘fighting’ but it’s healthy. We fight to be the best.

    “It’s my motivation: to be better than them, year after year.”

    However, the Madeira-born forward says the welfare of his family remains the most important thing in his life.

    He explained: “I was with Peter Lim, the owner of Valencia, and he said to me: ‘Cristiano, we have money, fame, everything. I have millions and billions. But the most important thing is family. Keep your family healthy, good. Take care of them’.

    “You have your private life, your girlfriend, your cars, your houses, your fame, but in the beginning, your family is always with you, in good moments or bad moments.”