Mueez Ajao
– Neymar has reiterated his desire to stay at Paris Saint-Germain but said he is unsure what the club plans to do about his future.
– Earlier this month, reported that PSG are open to letting him leave the club this summer with Chelsea interested in the forward.
– Neymar, 30, featured in the second half of PSG’s 3-0 preseason win over Urawa Red Diamonds on Saturday. After the game he opened up about his future plans.
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– “I still want to stay at the club,” he said in his postmatch interview. “Until now, the club haven’t told me anything so I don’t know what their plans are for me.”
– Neymar’s quotes came moments after new PSG manager Christophe Galtier told his postmatch news conference that he was unsure if the Brazil international would remain at the club.
– “Neymar has been working well since the start of the season,” Galtier said. “He also seems happy to me and he is very fit. I spoke about his situation at a press conference.
– “What will happen in the near future, at the end of the transfer market, I don’t know… I haven’t had an individual interview with him on this aspect.
– “But he doesn’t seem unsettled to me about what people are saying about him or his club situation [with how he acts] through the training sessions and the joy he has when he trains.”
– Neymar also expressed his desire to stay with the French champions in May and said he is looking forward to silencing his critics next season.
– “The truth is that I have nothing to prove to anyone,” he added after the preseason win. “People speak too much because they can do nothing else. They know me, they know how I am, how I play. I have nothing to show. I love playing football, I’m happy.”
– The forward was also linked with a move to Premier League champions Manchester City but the report was labelled as “false” by manager Pep Guardiola.
