• Neymar didn’t make this move for the money, and is actually quite offended that anyone might think the wages of about £520,000-a-week were the driving force behind signing for PSG.
• He’s motivated by the challenge. A new challenge. The challenge of winning the Champions League, broadly, but other challenges as well. Challenges. All about challenges.
• He’s up for making his debut against Amiens tomorrow, but they’ll have to see about that.
• He wasn’t motivated by being the big star at PSG, rather than playing second fiddle to Leo Messi at Barca.
• He’s upset that anyone at Barca might be upset with him. Talked about respect quite a lot.
• PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi denied all of this was some sort of revenge for Barcelona trying to nab Marco Verratti. He also reckons PSG will make more money than they spent on Neymar through the various marketing hoopla and so forth.
• Al-Khelaifi also reckons that simply signing Neymar has put about $500m on the value of the club.
