Barcelona “relaxed” over Neymar’s future amid PSG speculation

Barcelona have denied that Neymar is unsettled at the club, amid reports that Paris Saint-Germain are ready to meet the player’s €222million release clause.

Catalan sports daily, Sport, claims Neymar’s advisors think the 25-year-old needs to step out of Lionel Messi’s shadow at Camp Nou .

There are speculations that Neymar’s father will travel to Paris, to discuss the transfer with PSG owner, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, this week. It is understood the Ligue 1 club will be ready to use Barca target Marco Verratti as bait.

But Barcelona’s spokemans, Josep Vives, speaking at a news conference to reveal Barcelona’s financial results and record revenues of €708m over the last 12-month period, said: “The only thing we care is he keeps being happy here.

“He played a magnificent season and he is still one of the best in the world.

“He is happy in the club and the club is happy with him. He verbalises it and he shows it with his attitude. We are relaxed about that and we only hope next season is better than the last one.

“Neymar’s departure is not in club’s imagination; the club just thinks of keeping the best players like him, one of our main symbols.”

#barcelona #neymar #PSG