With Neymar, it’s practical, there is only good news. Maybe a few too many leaks from the Parisian locker room but otherwise everything is fine. The Brazilian, invited to a press conference on Monday at the Parc des Princes on the eve of Bayern’s reception in the knockout stages of the Champions League, swept away the club’s news with unfailing optimism. As he goes through performances, each one more insipid than the other, he claims to feel very good, both “mentally and physically”, which will have escaped all observers of his matches. “Everyone is entitled to their point of view and I respect that. I am doing my best for the club and the team and I will do it until the end of the season.
If ever his team was still worse at the moment, he has no worries about his transformation on big game nights. “I have a lot of self-confidence. I’ve always been on top since I’ve been in Europe. I know my abilities and my qualities, slips number 10. I like to play these big matches, against these big teams. This is when high quality players need to appear. Our biggest goal remains the Champions League. We are not here to walk around but to win all possible titles”. With every response, the striker is on the attacking side which makes a difference to his performance on the pitch in 2023.
“Kylian is a crack”
He even dribbled hot topics, such as Kylian Mbappé’s tenure on Tuesday or his lively exchange with Luis Campos on Saturday, after the defeat in Monaco (3-1). Regarding the Bondynois, he only has kind words about him. “Kylian is very important. It’s a crack. We are stronger when he is there. He told me he’s fine, that he feels fine. “And on his spat with the sports adviser, nothing too bad to listen to him. “It was an exchange, we did not agree. It happens every day but I love them all. It’s like with my girlfriend, he said smiling. Football is not just about love and friendship. These are discussions to improve our performance. It’s part of a process. We dialogue. »
There is still a subject that does not seem to find favor in his eyes, the “rumors” about him, a nebulous term that he will not explain. A reference, perhaps, to his repeated outings and not really sprinkled with mineral water, like his last birthday party, on the night of February 5 to 6 in his house in Bougival, unless three days of a clasico in Marseille. More broadly, the echoes that regularly escape in the media about the tumultuous life of PSG annoy him. “Since my first season in Paris, it’s been complicated,” he complains. But I’m not responsible for that, I’m just a player. There are subjects that must remain between us. We must walk together. It’s not normal for subjects to come out in the press, it has to stay between us. We must walk together. Verification from this Tuesday evening at the Parc des Princes.