Neymar is returning to Santus, a 'friendly team' after 12 years.
European soccer transfer market expert Fabrizio Romano said on the 28th (Korea time), "Currently, Neymar plans to sign with Santos after completing medical checkups. Finally, he will return to his hometown, the club where he grew up."
Born in 1992, Neymar, a Brazilian citizen, grew up rapidly with the Santos youth team. Finally, in 2009, he made his professional debut at the age of 17, and gained instant attention with his brilliant individual skills and scoring ability. During his four-and-a-half seasons with Santos, he scored 136 goals in 225 official appearances, and many big clubs targeted him.
He finally made his European debut for Barcelona, a prestigious club, ahead of the 2013-14 season. His transfer fee is a whopping 57 million euros. No one has broken this record so far. In the first season of his transfer, he showed great performance in 41 official matches, 15 goals and 12 assists, completing his adjustment early on.
Since then, Neymar has seen his best performance ever. He and Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez formed an invincible triangular formation, going beyond Spain to conquer the European stage. During the four seasons, Neymar has posted 105 goals and 76 assists in 186 matches, and Barcelona has emerged as the strongest club of its time by winning two league titles, one UEFA Champions League title, and three Copa del Rey titles. Notably, Neymar became the best player of his time by scoring 39 goals and seven assists in 51 official matches in 2014-15.
In the 2017-18 season, Neymar moved to Paris Saint-Germain and took a new turn. His transfer fee amounted to a whopping 222 million euros (W333 billion). Although he did not play as many games as before due to frequent injuries, he still showed good performance in six seasons by scoring 118 goals and 71 assists in 173 official matches. Thanks to this, PSG has become a French stage powerhouse with five league wins alone.
Later, he announced a surprise transfer to Saudi Arabia's Al Hilal ahead of the 2023-24 season, and this time challenged the Asian stage. Neymar's transfer fee is reported to be 100 million euros (about 150 billion won) and his annual salary is 150 million euros (about 225 billion won). The impact was strong from his debut, and he played as a substitute in the match against Aaliyad SC and contributed to his team's 6-1 victory by inducing one assist and PK for 30 minutes.
However, his performance stopped there. In a match against Uruguay in October last year, Neymar was out for the season due to an anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus rupture, and was thus exited from his team's roster. Eventually, Neymar focused on rehabilitation for nearly a year, and blew the entire season.
He returned from rehabilitation for a year, but was injured again. Neymar, who was substituted for the team in the fourth round of the AFC Champions League Elite (ACLE) league stage against Estegral in November last year, exited the stadium complaining of severe pain. The injury prevented Neymar from playing for up to six weeks. 먹튀검증
Neymar who devoted himself to rehabilitation for 488 days after the 2023-24 season. In the end, Al Hilal also gave up Neymar. According to Romano's report, Al Hilal immediately terminated his contract with Neymar. During this winter, Neymar was rumored to be moving to Lionel Messi, Inter Miami, where many of his former teammates from Barcelona, and his own league clubs, and finally, Santos is almost the most likely candidate.