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Kylian Mbappé (PSG player), Karim Benzema (Real Madrid player), Didier Deschamps (French national team manager), Lionel Messi (PSG player), Zinédine Zidane (non-club manager).
Stéphanie Frappart (referee), Vincent Labrune (French League president), Nasser al-Khelaïfi (PSG president), Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid player).
Fayza Lamari (Mbappé’s mother and manager), Franck Haise (Lens coach), Amélie Oudéa-Castéra (French Sports Minister), Pablo Longoria (CEO of Olympique de Marseille), Olivier Giroud (Milan player), Hugo Llloris (Tottenham player)
Neymar (PSG player), Aurélien Tchouaméni (Real Madrid player), Luis Campos (sporting director), Christophe Galtier (technical do PSG) Igor Tudor (technical do Olympique de Marseille).
The French love lists, awards, decorations, references.
They serve to motivate.
But also to put people “in their place”. Point out the importance, significance, relevance for players, coaches, businessmen in the current moment of football in France.
And the list of France Football magazine was a hard blow for Neymar.
Accumulating the failures in the Champions League with PSG and in the World Cup in Qatar weighed. And the bill came.
France Football released the list for the eighth time.
She makes it clear that the same player who in 2017 had his image stamped on the Eiffel Tower, and who would arrive to take French football to another level, has had increasingly disappointing seasons.
The 16th position harshly summarizes the current devaluation of the best player in this country.
He was bought by PSG in 2017 for 222 million euros, R$ 1.2 billion.
The current value of the player, according to the website specialized in transfers, transfermarkt, is 75 million euros, about R$ 414 million.
That is, it is worth 29% of what it was when it was purchased.
The commercial devaluation was 71%.
But it turns out that he also aged.
He arrived in France at the peak of his form, aged 25.
In these last five years, he has not achieved his main individual objective, that of becoming the best in the world.
It failed in the dream of PSG, of the Qatari royal family, to make the club the winner of the Champions League. It was five years of expectations and disappointment.
He succumbed to the selection and even became a joke for his simulations, in the Russian Cup. In Qatar, he accumulated his third defeat in Worlds. The one from 2014 left it bruised. But in the last two, he fell on the field and did not make it past the quarterfinals.
His endless nights out, the exaggerations, tantrums with judges, teasing opponents, simulations, sexual scandals, all combined to ruin his image.
The criticism doesn’t stop with his start to the season at PSG.
French journalists classify him as unmotivated.
He lost his shine to Messi, champion of the Qatar Cup, and also to Mbappé, runner-up, but top scorer in the competition.
Although he renewed his contract with PSG until 2027, there is a growing conviction among reporters from the main French vehicles that Neymar should not remain in France.
Reversing the public posture of the player, who tried for two years in a row to return to Barcelona, it will be PSG that will try to put the athlete on the market. Sell it, trade it.
Search for a new star.
The still most expensive player in the history of world football did not match.
His athletic prime has passed.
The Champions was not conquered.
He was at the center of several unnecessary controversies.
The trauma of losing the third World Cup in a row, while his teammates Messi and Mbappé shone in Asia, is manifested in the resumption of French football.
Neymar has been heavily criticized.
And pointed out as unmotivated.
After the World Cup final, Messi and Mbappé’s shirts at PSG sold more than 200% on the club’s official website.
Neymar’s remained stagnant.
That is, he is the third player in the club where he went to be the best in the world.
And his relevance to French football is mediocre.
Only 16th character.
The feeling of the end of the relationship is clear.
Only the miracle of winning the Champions League could change reality.
Bolsonaro awarded Neymar one of Brazil’s highest honors before leaving office
