How shining is Paris’ record signing Neymar?

Neymar’s pierce from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain has sent shockwaves around universe football – just given are a Ligue 1 bar investing so many in a 25-year-old brazen from Sao Paulo? UEFA.com investigates.

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What they say

“There are some players who are overwhelmed by a sorcery wand and Neymar is one of them. If he wants to win a Ballon d’Or, he will. If he wants to be a all-time tip scorer for Brazil, he will. He enjoys personification and each deteriorate he gets better. He’s like a excellent wine.”
Paris full-back Dani Alves

“Neymar could be improved than me.”
Pelé

Neymar and Luis Enrique after Barça’s 6-1 improved of Paris in March©AFP/Getty Images

“His series of goals and assists uncover he’s a savage of a footballer. He’s one of a many indeterminate players in a world.”
Former Barcelona manager Luis Enrique

“Neymar is a coach’s personality in a team. He is young, though his pierce to Barcelona helped him mature as both actor and person. He has also grown his ability to emanate goals. He’s no longer usually a actor who takes people on – he’s turn a master of assists.”
Brazil manager Tite

“Playing alongside Neymar is really easy given he’s a superstar. All we have to do is get a turn to him given he’s a form of actor who knows how to make a difference.”
Liverpool and Brazil aggressive midfielder Coutinho

Current tally

International: 77 appearances, 52 goals
UEFA bar competition: 40 appearances, 21 goals
European domestic competition: 145 appearances, 84 goals

Claims to fame

In movement opposite Barcelona in a 2011 FIFA Club World Cup©Getty Images

Santos
• Aged 17, Neymar scored on his initial comparison start, a diving header in a 3-0 win opposite Mogi Mirim in a 2009 Sao Paulo State Championship.

• Took a 2011 Copa Libertadores by storm, heading Santos to their initial South American pretension given 1948 with 6 goals, a final entrance in a second leg of a final opposite Uruguay’s Peñarol.

• Collected a 2011 FIFA Puskas Award, given to a actor judged to have scored a best idea of a year, for a gorgeous solo strike opposite Flamengo.

Barcelona
• Around 60,000 supporters incited out during a Camp Nou to hail Neymar when he sealed for Barça in Jun 2013. The 21-year-old pronounced during his presentation: “I’m so happy to be means to play with good players like Messi, Iniesta and Xavi. we appreciate God for all this.”

• Truly found his feet in his second debate with Barcelona, 2014/15. He shaped a challenging trident with Lionel Messi and visitor Luis Suárez that constructed 122 goals as a Blaugrana won a three-way of Liga, Copa del Rey and UEFA Champions League. They bettered that total by 9 a subsequent season, assisting Barcelona keep their Liga and domestic crater titles. 

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Neymar’s 7 goals for Barcelona opposite Paris

• Starred in Barcelona pulling off a biggest quip in UEFA Champions League history progressing this year, concealment twice during a genocide and provision a pass for Sergi Roberto to gash a wilful sixth idea in a a Azulgrana’s overwhelming 6-1 turn of 16 second-leg feat over Paris.

Brazil
• Struck on his comparison general debut, a 2-0 success over a United States in Aug 2010.

• Shone in a 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup and 2014 World Cup, both in Brazil. He purebred a second idea as Spain, whose starting XI enclosed 6 destiny Barcelona team-mates, were beaten 3-0 in a final of a former contest and notched twice opposite both Croatia and Cameroon in a organisation theatre of a latter.

• His weeping depart from a margin during Brazil’s quarter-final opposite Colombia, after nutritious a damaged bone in his back, stays one of a fast images of a 2014 World Cup. 

• Converted a wilful chastisement opposite Germany in a final shoot-out final Aug to sign hosts Brazil’s first-ever bullion endowment in a men’s Olympic football.

What we competence now know

An romantic Neymar after a 2016 Olympic men’s football final©Getty Images

• Neymar is one of 6 Brazilians to have won a Copa Libertadores and UEFA Champions League, and is one of dual players to have scored in a final of both continental competitions, Argentina’s Hernán Crespo being a other.

• He bagged a fastest idea in Olympic football story on 17 Aug 2016, violence Honduras screw Luis López after usually 14 seconds.

• Never bashful and retiring, Neymar has dabbled in behaving – he averted a heist and saved Samuel L Jackson’s skin by kicking an intent during an assailant in a 2017 Hollywood film xXx: Return of Xander Cage, and had a cameo partial in an part of Brazilian soap Amor à Vida.

What he says

“I always pronounced that Neymar-dependence does not exist in a inhabitant organisation – we’re articulate about Brazil here. Our team, if we are focused, is a best in a universe and we know that.”

Neymar says Lionel Messi helped him settle during Barcelona©Getty Images

“I don’t feel gentle about comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi. They are superstars and always play during a tip levels. we don’t know if now is a impulse to be a best in a world. we usually wish to be improved than myself and keep outdoing myself.”

“Messi helped me a lot. we had a lot of problems during a start with Barca, though a best actor in a universe came adult to me and said: ‘Calm down, things will work out, usually keep personification your football.’ That done me feel a lot better.”

What he competence grasp yet

• Neymar’s aim contingency be to mortar his new side to their initial UEFA Champions League crown. Toppling 156-goal Zlatan Ibrahimović as Paris’s all-time tip marksman is also a more-than-attainable objective.

• Neymar was named third-best actor in a universe in 2015, behind Messi and Ronaldo, though with both now over a age of 30, it can't be prolonged before he earns a prestigious Ballon d’Or fame or rises The Best FIFA Men’s Player award.