Life is like a chess piece, why be an outcast! After five years at Paris Saint-Germain, Neymar was no longer in the limelight

It was the best five years of Neymar's life and his worst five years. Since his move to Paris Saint-Germain in the summer of 2017, the Brazilian star has spent five full years in Ligue 1. Between the ages of 25 and 30, it is the best prime age for a professional player.

But for Neymar, it was also his worst five years, and now at the age of thirty, he and Paris have achieved nothing in the Champions League. After years of staggering years, Neymar had to face the reality of being transferred to other teams by his own owners.

The wind is always blown away by the rain and the wind

If Neymar thinks back to the summer of 2017, he will definitely show a big smile. That year, he moved from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain for the highest price in world football at the time of 220 million euros.

At that moment, he seemed to be the master of the Parc des Princes in Paris, able to lead the team to the highest podium in the Champions League, and he was only 25 years old at this time.

Shortly before the transfer, Neymar's Barca had a 6-1 victory over Paris Saint-Germain, and he was the biggest contributor to the victory, but everyone gave the praise to Messi. So the fanghua dispersed, and Neymar decided to leave Barca, away from Messi's back, to meet his own sunshine.

Neymar hit it off with Greater Paris. The former needs a "stage" that can better reflect their own value, while the latter urgently needs a group of "actors" who can show the strength of the club, to the top 3 of world football, and undoubtedly wants to show their ambition to win the highest honor in football.

But Neymar brought not only glory, but also greater Paris. As soon as he arrived at the team, he had an unpleasant quarrel with the boss of the team at that time, Cavani, and the club will definitely favor the more charismatic Brazilian superstar, and the stable football ecology built by the former Greater Paris will collapse in an instant, so to speak, until five years later, it has not recovered.

But Neymar, after gaining various privileges, failed to lead the team to the next level. On the contrary, year after year, he made fewer and fewer appearances and scored less and less goals. Injuries are on the rise, but the number of entertainment venues is increasing.

Kylian Mbappe, who joined the team at the same time, is quietly rising, and in the 2018-2019 season, Mbappe's statistics have surpassed Neymar, and since then, Neymar has not been particularly important to Paris Saint-Germain. Aside from bringing the team to a Champions League final, Neymar has accomplished almost nothing in his prime age.

Last season, Paris Saint-Germain played another game, with messi, Mbappe and Neymar's "trident" becoming the most dazzling combination in the world. But the opposite happened, the menacing Paris was still eliminated from the Champions League by Real Madrid, and their dream of reaching the top of Europe was once again ruthlessly shattered.

Because Kylian Mbappe is young and has always had the idea of joining Real Madrid, The Greater Paris has still been Neymar as the core of the team for five years, and even if his performance is not good, the Brazilian star will still renew his contract for five years in 2020, with an annual salary of 30 million euros, and there will be a special clause for automatic renewal until 2027 in July this year.

All of this is incomparably beautiful for Neymar, but the wind is always blown away by the rain and the wind, and mbappe decided to stay in the team this summer, and Neymar's good time suddenly left him.

The shrinking value is only to blame yourself

In the last five years, Paris Saint-Germain has had three iconic events: the first is the entry of Neymar, the second is the joining of Messi, and the third is the renewal of Kylian Mbappe's contract. The third thing, in particular, can completely influence the future direction of the whole club.

With Kylian Mbappe's contract extension, the football ecology of Greater Paris has once again undergone earth-shaking changes. Mbappe not only became the key figure of the whole team, but also had many privileges, it can be said that the whole team began to rotate with him as the center of the circle.

First, football director Leonardo was sacked, replaced by Mbappe's mentor Campos in Monaco, followed by manager Pochettino, who was about to leave school, and would be Campos's partner Galtier when he was working in Lille.

In the team, the Argentine players are basically all gone except For Messi, and Campos hopes to replace them with the students he has trained. Immediately after, Neymar's future is no longer clear, and the annual salary of 30 million euros is also a huge burden for a local team like Paris, and the club hopes that he can leave Paris, even if the transfer fee is only 50 million euros.

From 220 million euros five years ago to 50 million euros today, Neymar's value has shrunk by three-quarters. But even so, no team is willing to pay the money to get the former Brazilian superstar, after all, Neymar does not want to cut the annual salary sharply, and all the giants, including Barca and Juventus, cannot afford to pay this money.

For Neymar, there is nothing more comfortable than staying in Paris Saint-Germain. Although his good times on the pitch are gone, he is still the second-highest paid celebrity in world football, and his life off the pitch will not change in the slightest because he is an "outcast" of the club.

So when the media were reporting that Paris wanted to sell Neymar, he himself scoffed, saying it was impossible.

The reconstruction of Greater Paris is not small

There is now just over a month to go before the start of the new Ligue 1 season, and paris Saint-Germain's stalls are still a bit messy. Speaking of which, the club's top brass only got two things done this summer, one was Mbappe's contract extension and the other was Campos' addition.

Galtier's entry into the Parc des Princes as the new head coach is still in endless operation. All in all, the club is still negotiating with the current manager Pochettino, hoping to make him "voluntarily" step down while paying less for the termination fee, and paying less for the current Nice manager Galtier.

However, Paris Saint-Germain's biggest advantage is to be willing to spend money, the club has lost nearly 300 million euros in the past year, but it does not prevent them from making a splash in European football.

But there are some things that can't be done with money.

We can find that from Kylian Mbappe's contract extension to Campos's joining, to Galtier taking up the great paris coaching whip, it is basically around Mbappe,and a team is not a player can stand up, especially this big-name superstar-studded club, relying only on Mbappe's appeal, have you considered the feelings of Neymar and Messi?

The current situation is that Neymar will most likely not be able to go anywhere, and can only stay in the team to fulfill the long contract, and Messi seems to have been greatly snubbed, and there is no control in the team when he was at Barca.

As a new coach of a giant team, Galtier does not have many excellent records to convince the public, and the only Ligue 1 title cannot convince stars such as Neymar. How to get the team to integrate in the short term and make a major breakthrough in the results is still a big problem for Galtier.

Neymar has dedicated his youth to Paris Saint-Germain, and he also hopes to help the club win the coveted Champions League crown with his own efforts, so although he has almost become an "outcast", as long as he does not give up his efforts, he can still regain the energy he once had with the help of Messi and Mbappe.

Five years have passed, how many golden five years will Neymar have to wait for him?