Neymar
Neymar will earn 98% less of what he earned at Al Hilal de Jorge Jesus. To convince the “prince”, Santos “asked for help” the king.
“Wow, wow, so you kill me.” This is certainly the way the Santos reacted to the news finally made official on Thursday afternoon: “Boy Ney” is back in Peixão.
Three days after having terminated a contract with Al-Hilal de Jorge Jesus-despite this in force until June-the Brazilian announced that he will return to the club in which he formed and will be at the service of another Portuguese, Pedro Cabeo.
The best marker in the history of ‘canary’ could not have been more direct: “I will sign by Santos”He said in a video released on the X social network. “The prince is on his way,” wrote Santos.
🤍🖤 🇧🇷
– Neymar Jr (@neymarjr)
To convince the “prince”, Santos turned to the king.
With the help of Artificial Intelligence (IA) simulating Pelé’s voice – still the club’s biggest legend, died in 2022 – the Alvinegros recalled Neymar’s course and the emotional connection it still has with the club.
The video of Pelé that Santos made for Ney…
— bea peace ✋🏽😜🤚🏽 (@isntbeapaz)
The Brazilian leaves the Saudis five months before the end of the contract, after having made seven games and scored only one goal by the JJ team, having been haunted for a serious injury that suffered shortly after changing Paris for Arabia in 2023.
The extreme prepares for see your salary fall at 97.6% in the face of what it earned in Saudi Arabia: it no longer receives 6.6 million euros per month to win 160 thousand euros per month in the fish. The Brazilian press writes that the player, one of the highest paid in the world, will have abdicated part of the around 62 million euros to which he was entitled to terminate, fitting a value around 35 million.
Now 32, Neymar returns to the house he left in 2013, where he was revered when he was still a boy. According to Sportico, specializing in sports transactions, Neymar who left Santos returns home after accumulating more than 970 million euros on the tickets for Barcelona, PSG and Al-Hilal. But much happened in these 12 years of tourist.
12 years of glory, frustrations and injuries
MSN enters not chat
Still boy (was 22), but already four years of stardom ‘Ney’ leaves Santos in 2013 with the fame of Biggest promise of world football, the “New Pelé”a pre-lean of Brazilian football, and accepts the biggest possible challenge: Barcelona, alongside Lionel Messi.
From an early age, the star played more than handsome for the blaugrana, but it was the trio MSNwhich composed the attack culè from his second year in the class, which left us with his mouth open.
Messi, Suárez and Neymar certainly enter the discussion as the most lethal trio in sports history. The 2014/15 season was the most striking: the three scored 122 combined goals, with Neymar contributing 39, seven more assists, and Barça ‘wiped’ everything: the Champions League, La Liga, the King’s Cup and The Club World Cup. The boy shone And he did what only Hernán Crespo had done to date: he scored in the Libertadores final and the Champions League final.
It seemed like a dream come true, the Brazilian’s path. In total, they were 186 games, 105 goals and 59 assists by Barcelona.
The most expensive in history (and the beginning of the curse)
In 2017, Neymar became the most expensive player in history of football when hired by Paris Saint-Germain for 222 million euros.
In Paris, he took the lead: high -level soccer, a club alone at the forefront of French football – until injuries begin to arrive.
The 2019/20 season was a turning point for Neymar: PSG reached the Champions League final that would eventually lose to Bayern Munich.
Between physical problems and internal conflicts, his relationship with the club has been deteriorating in the following years, culminating in his departure in 2023. But the numbers do not lie: 173 games, 118 goals and 70 assists For the Parisians, with five French championships in their pockets.
“Vacation” in Arabia
Al-Hilal
In the summer of 2023, Neymar accepted a millionaire contract to play at Al-Hilal, Saudi Arabia. But nothing went as expected.
Just two months after his arrival, he suffered a serious left knee injury at the service of the Brazilian National Team and was removed from the pitch for over a year.
His speech in Saudi football was just the seven games, a goal and two assists.
Tomás Guimarães, Zap //
