Firstly PSG are open to a sale which means they want him gone in the nicest way. They've told him, yet he wants to remain. No club is linked or believed to have enquired as things stand at the moment.
The thing about Neymar is there's always been this feeling with him about wasted potential. At 25 when he was the best player in the world he chose to move to ligue 1 when he was at the pinnacle of world football.
Yet he is only the third player in history to score 100 professional goals for 3 different clubs (Santos, Barca and PSG). On his day the only player close to his natural talent to ever play for us would be Hazard.
I've watched the Neymar documentary and what strikes me is how he feels misunderstood to the world. Those that know him vs those that don't.
He's actually quite a chilled guy and I'd say a good father from what I've seen. When it comes to football and superstardom I think these two personalities are at odds, you have this guy who is so talented, but when people talk about him it's very rarely a conversation about his footballing ability, usually its his attitude, behaviour and negative public image.
I read a quote from him which basically said he lives both as a footballer and a guy who likes to party because its important to enjoy one's life and not only focus on work. There was more to it than that but I'm just summarising.
I'll say one thing whether it would work out or not if we did go in for him is one thing, but I think its important to note just how high of a level he is compared to our other players in the attacking areas. The one thing Tuchel doesn't have compared to the other 'super coaches' is a superstar attack minded player/ forward.
Pep has KDB, Silva, Mahrez and Sterling, Klopp has Mané, Salah, Jota and now Diaz. Anceolotti has Benzema, Vini Jr plus ankle plate free Eden Hazard now and Bale. Poch whether he deserves to be mentioned or not with the other coaches has Messi, Mbappe and Neymar. Conte has Kane and Son. Nagelsmann has Lewandowski, Sane, Muller, Gnabry and Coman. Simeone had an ageing Suarez, Felix and Griezmann which is probably the weakest I've mentioned so far, but still some big names.
Who does TT have that's truly elite? I like all of our attackers but Mount isn't really a forward despite his impressive numbers this season, none of our players are truly elite attackers (yet) and until we have those levels of difference makers it will be very difficult to win the league. That doesn't mean Neymar is the answer, but looking at the gap between his ability and what we have gives us a good basis to judge the kind of level of attacker we need to start seeing an improvement in our attack.
It's not just a goalscorer we need, but also an elite playmaker. It would be great if that could come all packaged in one individual.
