HIS FORMER AGENT REVEALS DETAILS
Messi was key for Neymar to choose Barça over Madrid
Published:19/10/2022 - 17:12h
Updated:19/10/2022 - 17:39h
Lionel Messi would have been a key factor in the operation for Barça to sign Neymar in the summer of 2013. This was recently explained by his former agent, Wagner Ribeiro
To beginnings of the past decade, Neymar Jr., the one who already had begun to shine dressing the T-shirt of the Saints, turned into one of the main aims of the market of signings, with the FC Barcelona and the Real Madrid had to incorporate him. Finally, the Brazilian would finish dressing the elastic Barcelona like the big signing of the summer of 2013.
Recently, Wagner Ribeiro, the one who was the representative of the international with the 'Canarinha', gave to know some of the reasons by which would have finished choosing to the picture culé. Between them it would be the main star of the Barça for that then: "Once that the Real Madrid withdrew of the bidding, Neymar had a conversation with Messi that it was fundamental so that fichara by the Barcelona".
In fact, Ribeiro wished that the forward finished dressing of white, but the influence of the Argentinian star finished for imposing , even already with a document of the merengues expecting by his rúbrica: "I wanted that it was to the Real Madrid that sent him an agreement so that it signed it. It was then when it produced this conversation with Messi and decided by the Barcelona".
The Barça always was by in front
Likewise, it indicated that the Barelona always knew contraatacar in front of each ofrecimiento that came from from Valdebebas, key factors so that the Catalan entity finished winning the 'bidding' by the signing of the Brazilian attacker: "they Wanted to Neymar, did a lot of proposals and the Barcelona also. Whenever the Madrid did a proposal the Barcelona covered it".
After denying that the Madrilenian entity had an agreement with the footballer, has explained how sucedieron the facts for his exit of the Brazilian football, in whose conditions did not specify which would be his destination: "The Saints gave him a letter to Neymar so that it could negotiate the future of the player, generic, for any club of the world, no for the Barcelona".