The day Neymar decided to leave Barcelona

Neymar da Silva Santos junior is set to arrive in French capital on Thursday morning to complete world record 222 million Euros move to Paris St. Germain. The Brazilian forward will receive whopping 30 million pounds every year after tax; triple the amount that he received with Barcelona. Neymar will overtake Argentina’s Carlos Tevez has the highest paid footballer, who earns 6, 15,000 Pounds every week at Shangai Shenua. Neymar played alongside Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez during his 4-year stint with Barcelona and the ‘MSN’ fired 364 goals together, winning 2 La Liga titles and 1 Champions League in 2015. According to football experts, move to PSG is a step backward for the 25-year-old but hang on a minute. Can’t he dream to take the centre stage? He is ‘one of the’ lethal players in world football at the moment and a move to PSG would allow him to establish himself as ‘the best’ player. Neymar can now play where ever he wants to, however he wants to and without the need of adapting to someone else’s game. There is also the matter of him being his own man. At camp Nou, he won’t have the star attraction as long as Lionel Messi is around. And, that is what he craves for! One historic Champions League night in March convinced Neymar that he would never be able to step out of Lionel Messi’s shadows. Barcelona had handed Paris St. Germain a humiliating defeat and Neymar mastered one of the greatest comeback in Champions league. But, when he woke up the next morning, the advertising boards and papers praised their hero – Lionel messi.

This night was ... ???????? #ForçaBarça pic.twitter.com/cpIXJwwVRr

— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) March 8, 2017

Barcelona were on the verge of early exist in the Champions League after a crushing 4-0 defeat to Paris St. Germain in the first leg but the Brazilian had different plans. He produced one of the best performances of his career as he fired two quick goals in 7 minutes and assisted one to show the way out to the French side. He had led throughout, taking responsibility and was seen everywhere on the field. May be that was the night he realized he will only play as second fiddle to Messi and it was the time to part ways to welcome new adventures in his career. There is lot of money involved and so is the pressure to justify that amount being paid for his services but the hunger to outclass Messi and earn the centre stage will take him places, which would never be possible at Barca.