A Neymar transfer to PSG would create a major domino effect
Brazilian superstar Neymar has been grabbing the world’s attention this past week, as shocking rumors have been swirling that he is on the verge of leaving Barcelona in order to join Paris Saint Germain. The news of Neymar’s possible departure has caught the top transfer headlines and been causing quite a stir in the football world for a number of reasons.
When Neymar joined Barcelona four years ago as a 21 year old, he hit the ground running and has regularly churned out quality performances. Neymar’s consistent production level for one of the richest and most popular sports teams in the world, as well as starring in Barcelona’s potent MSN attack alongside Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez, has led him to develop into a world class player and one of the best wingers on the planet.
When Neymar first joined Barcelona, many assumed he was the obvious heir apparent to Lionel Messi and would be the focal point of the Catalonia club for over a decade and become the leader of the team once Messi and Suarez retired or left the club. However, life doesn’t always go as planned, and Neymar is reminding us all that the soccer world can also be just as unpredictable.
Despite the surprise a Neymar move to PSG would create, the implications of the move would be far greater and would create a massive disturbance amongst the football world’s elite and create a gigantic domino effect. Essentially, it would turn up the volume on an already busy summer transfer window.
To illustrate this, Neymar’s move to PSG would cost the Paris club €222 million. This world record transfer sum would vastly increase the pockets of the already wealthy Barcelona. As a result, Barcelona would have to find a replacement for Neymar by possibly snatching Juventus’s Paulo Dybala as reports suggest, and potentially even add their long rumored targets Marco Verratti or Philippe Coutinho as well with the Neymar transfer money. If that happened, then Juventus would have to scramble for a top level replacement to replace Dybala joining Barcelona, likely having to turn to signing a quality player from another elite caliber club. Then the club Juventus buys a player from would have to go into the transfer market themselves to find a suitable replacement for their player joining Juventus and so on all the way to the very bottom of the world football chain. Long story short, Neymar’s transfer would cause a chain reaction that would start with the top clubs and make its effect all the way to the bottom clubs of the European continent selling and having to replace.
As one can see, if the Neymar move to PSG happens to push through, expect fireworks to follow for the remainder of the summer as top clubs scramble to hold on to their primary players or find replacements for them if having to sell once one of the predator clubs come calling.