Chelsea signing Neymar may be real possibility as Boehly seeks statement
If Chelsea are not careful during this offseason, Barcelona are going to take an important handful
of integral Blues players away. Along with the Spanish club seemingly attempting to secure
and hijack the majority of the English side’s main transfer targets. To be quite honest,
there were and continue to be too many connections and crossovers for it to be coincidental.
There must be an appreciation which led to a concerted effort targeting CFC’s style
for replication. A peculiar pattern, indeed.
New owner Todd Boehly will have known this preseason would be testing with a crucial
multitude of tasks facing he and his staff. Yet I suspect he wouldn’t have expected
to be raided by an enormous outfit for important personnel as well as all monitored prospective
acquisitions. And maybe that is the true reason why Barca are acting like vultures over Stamford
Bridge: they saw a fresh chairman inexperienced in football, and consequently saw an opportunity
to pounce on the assumed fragile. The funding issues at Camp Nou surely spurred the ploy.
Or perhaps I am under a misapprehension and therefore every similar link between the two
is just false reporting and fake news.
A former Blaugrana star is also being mentioned frequently regarding a potential marquee move
to Fulham Road. Additionally, Neymar Jr. is apparently angling to leave Paris Saint-Germain
after learning that they will consider offers for him.
Signing Neymar could now a real possibility for Chels’ as speculation gathers pace,
according to Daily Express. Todd Boehly wants to make a ‘statement buy’; not many are
more newsworthy than the Brazilian superstar. Only Manchester United icon Cristiano Ronaldo
– also rumoured to desire a change of scenery and admired by the Blues – or the legendary
Lionel Messi would arguably top the capture of Messi’s PSG colleague.
Realistically, having Neymar would inevitably be a phenomenal gift for Chelsea supporters
or a rotten curse of a switch for CFC. Yet his conceivably astonishing wage packet would
be almost instantly offset by the amount of revenue generated from merchandise such as
sales of personalised shirts and the rest of it.
On the pitch is where it really matters, naturally. Let’s ignore the attacker’s Ligue 1 productivity:
although the numbers are outstanding the division is rather inferior when compared with the
ultimate Premier League. So, how do Neymar’s international and Champions League goal and
assist contributions stack up?
Essentially the wingman is just as deadly in increasingly trying environments as well.
For example, up until last season he was producing consistently standout UCL performances. While
he is second on Brazil’s all-time goalscoring chart behind the absolute titan that is Pele.
Enough said on quality.
However, ultimately I don’t think Neymar shall join Chelsea because Manchester City’s
Raheem Sterling probably will sign. The two share the same leftwing position, and Sterling
will have been offered a starting role. Though the Mogi das Cruzes-born player’s suggested
€90million price tag is well within the £200m Bridge budget, spending elsewhere is
more practical. Doubts still remain over the former being quite as effective in the EPL.
Thomas Tuchel certainly had known issues with the mercurial maestro.