I don’t think the issue with Neymar was greed. We all saw him overshadowed by Messi, and this isn’t even a lie. A 39 year old Messi still overshadow great players like Mbappe and Haaland, so imagine what it was like against prime Messi.
Neymar made the mistake of thinking that staying alongside the brightest star dims yours. He wanted to be that “brightest star” so bad that he missed out on the fact that Messi’s light added to his.
Neymar finished top 10 on the ballon d’or list from fucking Santos! He was destined for greatness but lost the plot along the line.
And in my opinion, you can’t really blame him. If he never left Barca, he would have felt like he didn’t create his own path and was forever under Messi’s shadow. Leaving Barca wasn’t what killed his career, it was his lifestyle.
I strongly believe that in Barca, Messi to an extent, interfered in some of his habits, either directly or indirectly. He looked up to Messi, so there was a possibility that Messi pushed him to do better there. He wasn’t able to get that at PSG, so he lost that focus, and went downhill from there.
Messi has scored this type of goal more than 500 times & see the Austrian player still jogging behind him when Messi was moving to his favorite spot.
https://t.co/9kiyh2To01
•Ronaldo has better fitness than Messi.
• Messi can’t play in the EPL
I swear to God, Ronaldo is so lucky to be compared to this guy. Nobody can convince me that this guy wasn’t on something coz wtf 😳