Relations broken between the domes of Barça and PSG
Al-Khelaïfi mistakenly suspects that Barça has 'warmed up' Neymar to ask to leave
FC Barcelona and PSG maintain a bitter sport rivalry in recent seasons both on the field and outside it. The movements of the club azulgrana to try to seduce in previous seasons to players of the Parisian club like Thiago Silva, Marquinhos, Verratti or Di Maria had the well-known replica of Nasser Al-Khelaïfi in the signing of Neymar, in 2017, through the payment of his clause of 222 million euros. A few months before that episode, the PSG experienced its greatest sports humiliation at the Camp Nou, when Barça de Luis Enrique endorsed a 6-1 in the last 16 of the Champions League, in the biggest comeback ever lived in this competition.
This tense competition does not favor Neymar Junior's intention to return to FC Barcelona, which he has been offering for more than a year, as we explained in MD many months ago. To this day, when the Brazilian has more illusions in returning to his former club, the relations between the Barcelona and Parisian entity are worse.
During the last season, at the ECA meetings, the presidents of both clubs, Josep Maria Bartomeu and Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, sat side by side in all the meetings. By force of meeting, the relations between both were normalizing until arriving at a situation of institutional correction after the disagreements before mentioned.
However, in recent times the president of PSG has again broken any relationship with Bartomeu and has returned to a cold and cold indifference. And all because he considers that if Neymar has asked to leave the Parisian club to go to Barça is because the Catalan club has 'heated' the Brazilian to force his departure this summer, including in it challenging statements and controversial delays. Nothing is further from reality because Barça, in this case, is acting as a passive element, watching the bulls from the barrier and well covered with the signings of De Jong and Griezmann. If Neymar and PSG want something from Barcelona they should go look for it with something attractive.