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Neymar’s father never wanted to leave Barcelona. In an interview given to the media ForçaBarçaNeymar Pai returned to the circumstances of his son’s departure to PSG in 2017, when no one expected it. A decision in which he was never involved, he recalls.
“Why did he choose to go to Paris? It’s strange. We didn’t know what Barça’s management was really thinking. It was as if they wanted Ney to take a position he didn’t want. He didn’t want to be the first, the star of the team. I really wanted my son to stay in Barcelona and in the last days before his departure, we did everything to make him stay, but he left because he didn’t want to put himself in the place of the biggest Barcelona star. He decided and said: “I will go to Paris where I will be just a member of the team”»
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