PSG, after the defeat in the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 against Bayern, tries to get out of its crisis in tomorrow’s game against Lille. and all with Neymar again in the spotlight for his lifestyle. The Parisian club chains three consecutive losses (League, elimination of the Cup and Champions), something not seen since november 2011very shortly after the arrival of the current Qatari owners.
If another two league defeats are added, PSG have lost five games in just over a monthwithout the remodeling of the dressing room last summer seeming to have worked and with the coach Christophe Galtier, also arrived in the preseason, already highly questioned.
The last defeat has been the most significant, against Bayern (0-1), since it seriously endangers PSG’s true goal, the Champions League. Not winning the accessible French league seems out of the question. After that defeat, Mbappe He urged his teammates to apply themselves to lift the round of 16 tie in Germany. “Above all, our players need to be in good health. Each one must eat well, sleep well and prepare as much as possible”said the French star.
poker and fast food
But just the next day Neymar gave the note to appear photos of him in a poker tournament -a commitment that had been for some time- and eating a hamburger at a fast food chain. “I told him what I thought,” Galtier told the press, who even so acknowledged that the player has the right to dispose of his free time as he wishes.
Meanwhile, the Brazilian’s performance, full of ups and downs, has again generated criticism, especially in the last two months, overshadowed by a world champion Messi and an omnipresent Mbappé.
The player’s entourage has leaked to the French press that Neymar has had a hard time recovering from an injury sustained to his right ankle during the World Cup in Qatar (a lateral ligament contusion and bone edema).
As strong as the criticism of his game and his lifestyle may be, Neymar has a contract with PSG until 2027 and his stratospheric salary and his age, 31, make it highly unlikely that any other team would want to sign him, so the Parisians and the Brazilian star seem destined to continue together.
In the last winter market there was information about a possible interest from English Chelsea, but finally the London club focused on signing young talent, especially with the Argentine Enzo Fernández and the Ukrainian Mykhailo Mudryk.
After the market closed, Ney’s lifestyle and partying continue to make headlines in France. “L’Equipe” has published a report with testimonials from the Brazilian player’s neighbors in Bougivala wealthy town of 8,000 on the outskirts of Paris. “This person does not have any respect. The fact that he is Neymar does not excuse him. Some of his parties have lasted 48 hours”Some neighbors complain. The latest example was the celebration of the player’s last birthday, on February 5, with music in the open air until midnight on the 5,000-square-meter land that has his mansion.
The mayor himself, Luc Watelle, confessed “impotent” in the pages of “Le Parisien” for the frequent and noisy parties of the Brazilian.