Everything indicates that the soap opera Neymar has written his last episode ... this summer. The capitulation of the Brazilian, who has informed the PSG that he gives up, that he stays in Paris, seems unequivocal sign that there will be no miracle, no epilogue, or any other form of resurrection of the negotiation before Monday at 23.59 the person in charge gives the button to turn off the market. In bomb artifact deactivated at the last moment, but whose trail of burnt wick has left cracks in the ground. Cracks in many relationships. Locker room cracks. And cracks in the grass. Because the failure of his signing leaves many of the characters involved in the plot touched, with wounds that are not healed with a band aid ... and that they have to resume their usual life from Tuesday, September 3 as if there were nothing past.
Cracks In Barcelona the effects of the Neymar earthquake are evident. A part of the fans disapprove that the board has not made the necessary effort to bring the Brazilian back to the grass of the Camp Nou and another sector does not forgive that it has been marketed with important players of the squad to sign a player who barely made two summers left the club in evidence. In addition to the offices, the dressing room is touched. Both those who pressed for him to return and those who have seen his name involved in the many exchange offers that have happened. Both Rakitic, as Semedo, Dembélé, Umtiti, Todibo, Arthur ... Many players who have felt currency and who now have to be convinced that they are part of the squad. As if nothing had happened. As if some of them hadn't even looked at a house in Paris.
Cracks in Paris The first victim is Neymar himself, who has truncated his desire to return to Barcelona and has to stay in Paris (at least until January) against his will and in a hostile and very belligerent environment against him. The ultras already burned any possibility of understanding when at the first meeting in the Park of the Princes the stands were filled with very unpleasant banners and shouts against the Brazilian.
That absence of social peace between the bleachers and the Brazilian can affect the team and the decisions of Tuchel, who will have to welcome Neymar back into the squad as one more, give him entry again to eleven and work to get his mind back to focus on helping the PSG. A brown for a coach who had already made up the idea of losing one of his stars and now has to rebuild his idea for the season with a player who does not want to be on his team. Nor will Mbappé be very happy, who will have We have to share costumes, front and spotlights with Neymar. At the end of the last season the Frenchman raised his voice asking for more responsibilities. A message that could be understood as a warning of his departure but that was actually an internal cry. Mbappé wants to be the face of the PSG, the only and unquestionable star in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. And since then, the club has focused on making it feel special. Al-Khelaifi denounced in France Football some "starry" behaviors of his players and, if there were any doubts, he refined the shot towards Neymar: "No one forced him to sign here."
The negotiation broke down, the positions became entrenched, the conversation turned into trench warfare and now, with the truce agreed without Barcelona having taken Neymar prisoner, all the actors sent to the front have to return to their point of origin by shaking the mud from the bottom of the pants and with the task of returning to a daily life that has jumped through the air.