The Magician Neymar👑🥲

In 2015 there was a player who the entire football world agreed was on the verge of becoming the greatest player who ever lived. At just 23 years old he scored 39 goals for Barcelona, won the treble of La Liga, Copa del Rey and the Champions League, scored in the Champions League final, and formed part of the most devastating attacking trio in football history alongside Messi and Suarez.

Multiple respected journalists and pundits called him the best player in the world. He was younger than Messi and Ronaldo. He was faster, more skilful, more exciting. The throne was his to claim. Then Paris Saint-Germain paid £198 million for him, the most expensive transfer in the history of football. What followed was one of the greatest what could have been stories sport has ever seen. Injuries destroyed his best years. He spent more time on the treatment table than on the pitch. He caused chaos at PSG, tried to pay the club £20 million of his own money just to leave, and eventually ended up at Al Hilal where his own manager publicly said he could no longer perform at the required level. His contract was terminated by mutual consent after just seven appearances. He is now back at Santos, the club where his career began, without a World Cup, without a Ballon d'Or, and without the legacy that once felt inevitable.

The prince that never became king. Football has never seen a greater waste of talent.

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