Lionel Messi is understood to be a prime mover in plans to take Neymar back to Barcelona, and would be perfectly willing to welcome his former teammate back.
The Brazilian’s controversial world-record move to Paris Saint-Germain in 2017 shocked football and created a huge degree of acrimony around the Camp Nou squad and hierarchy, but it hasn’t fully worked out in the manner the 26-year-old hoped.
With the move partly made so Neymar could potentially usurp Messi and Ronaldo as the best player in the world, he was not even on the shortlist for this year’s Fifa The Best Award, and is generally said to be unhappy and unsettled in Paris.