When many people talk about Neymar, they will say that he has not won the Ballon d'Or in his career, mainly because he should not have left Barcelona back then, is this remark correct? In 2009, at the age of 17, Neymar was in the spotlight after turning professional, winning the South American Footballer of the Year award and Puskas Award in 2011 and winning the Confederations Cup with Brazil in 2013.
Before the start of the 2013 Confederations Cup, Neymar decided to transfer to Barcelona and will go to the European League to challenge, Neymar, who joined Barcelona for 57 million euros, has 105 goals and 76 assists in 186 games in Barcelona for 4 seasons, won 1 Champions League, 1 Club World Cup, 1 UEFA Super Cup, 2 La Liga titles and 3 Copa del Rey titles, basically all the championships that the club can win.
In the four seasons from 2013 to 2017, Neymar ranked in the top 10 in the Golden Ball Awards, and the best two years were to No. 3, only after Messi and Ronaldo, so he was also recognized as the third person in the world at that time. However, in 2017, Barcelona and Messi were rumored to renew their contracts until 2021, playing in Barcelona since childhood, bringing countless trophies and glory to Barcelona, Messi is equal to Barcelona, such a concept has been deeply rooted in the hearts of all fans, so if Messi and Barcelona continue to renew their contract, it will be difficult for Neymar to break away from Messi before 2021, and it is difficult for people to think that success in Barcelona, the championship won in Barcelona, Neymar will be the most critical person in the team, and it may not be easy to win the Ballon d'Or.
At this time, Paris Saint-Germain, who had just been reversed 6-1 by Barcelona in the Champions League, moved their thoughts to Neymar, after the acquisition of Paris Saint-Germain by Qatar's sovereign fund in 2011, Paris was already the most representative team in Ligue 1, and Paris Saint-Germain, who urgently needed the Champions League title, needed a superstar to fight for their glory.
This is exactly the stage that Neymar needs, Ibrahimovic has been away from the team for a year, and there are good players such as Cavani, Verratti, Thiago Silva, Marquinhos and Di Maria, Paris Saint-Germain has never won the Champions League in history, and has just lost the Ligue 1 title, Neymar can just regain the league title as the primary goal after joining, if he can win the Champions League with the team, Neymar's status will definitely be able to be raised again, and at the same time really compete for the Ballon d'Or.
All things considered, plus the salary offered by Paris Saint-Germain, Neymar decided to leave. This is the end of the story of Neymar and Barcelona, we have no way of knowing if he stays in the team, Messi, whose personality is not so competitive, is it possible to slowly hand over the baton to the juniors like Xiao Luo in the past, it is possible that Messi will do this, but in terms of Messi's personal ability, it is also very likely that he will continue to call the wind and rain in football, resulting in Neymar still not being fully recognized.
So whether Neymar stays at Barcelona or chooses to leave, both are understandable, and the reason why everyone says that it would be better for Neymar to stay may just be that people often think that it might be better to make another choice in the first place.
At the beginning, we mentioned that after Neymar left the team suddenly, it also triggered a series of butterfly effects for Barcelona, hastily signing people at high prices and giving high salaries, hoping to continue to build an offensive trident, but so far Neymar has left Paris Saint-Germain and switched to Saudi Arabia, but the impact on Barcelona after his departure has not completely ended.
In the summer of 2017, Neymar left Barcelona for a record transfer fee of 222 million euros to join Paris Saint-Germain, after Neymar left, Barcelona needed a player who could play on the wing, so Dembele, who performed amazingly in Dortmund that year, became the team's target, and Dembele was selected as the best rookie and Bundesliga team of the year in Dortmund in the Bundesliga, with 10 goals and 22 assists.
In the end, Barcelona won 140 million euros, and Dembele, who was only 20 years old, was only the second year of turning professional, and he had just proved his strength in the Bundesliga, so he was introduced with such a huge amount of money, in addition to Barcelona's potential for him, anyone knows that Barcelona has just sold Neymar, and he needs to be strengthened in addition to money, and various factors have also created such an astonishing figure of 140 million euros.
Also in this season, Barcelona also took a fancy to the Brazilian player Coutinho, who performed well in Liverpool, and it was rumored that Barcelona made an offer to Liverpool from the summer, and Coutinho also intended to go to the Camp Nou, until the winter window in January 2018, Coutinho officially joined Barcelona, and the transfer fee was rumored to be a staggering 160 million euros.
Half a year after Neymar left the team, Barcelona made two consecutive heavy purchases, although both players were quite hot stars in football at that time, but Barcelona bought them at a high price, which was really surprising at the time, as for the performance of the two?
Dembele, who is close to Neymar, began to suffer injuries in his first season with Barcelona, was out for four months soon after the start of the season, and returned again for one month shortly after returning in January of the following year, making only 24 appearances in the whole season, scoring four goals and seven assists.
Although Barcelona won the La Liga championship this year, in the Champions League, the first leg of the quarterfinals defeated Roma 4-1, and the second time the partner was defeated by Roma 3-0 and was eliminated due to the disadvantage of away goals. Dembele left Barcelona last summer and also went to Paris Saint-Germain, scoring a total of 40 goals in six seasons at Barcelona, almost the same performance as Neymar in one season at his peak.
What about Coutinho? He needs to have a lot of possession to play, and he obviously can't find his place in Barcelona with Messi, as a playmaker with the ball, Messi will do better than him, and put it on the side as a breakthrough, which is not what Coutinho is good at, he can't have the power of Neymar.
Coutinho, who moved to Barcelona, completely lost his style at Liverpool, and failed to play in the Champions League in his first season because he had already played for Liverpool. In the end, Barcelona loaned him to Bayern Munich after only one and a half seasons, and he failed to perform well when he returned to the team in 2020.
In the first summer of Neymar's departure, in 2018, Barcelona also had an incomprehensible transfer, they introduced young Brazilian winger Malcom, who was originally going to join Roma, but Barcelona suddenly intervened, and Malcom went to Barcelona for 41 million euros.
In the case of Malcolm at that time, in fact, it would be better to go to Rome to hone first, but Malcom, who went directly to the super giant Barcelona, did not meet the team's expectations, only played 25 games in the whole season, scored 4 goals, and was sold to Zenit in Russia the next year, which is also one of Barcelona's puzzling transfer operations after Neymar left, but Malcolm, who fortunately went to Zenit, also sold almost 40 million euros, and did not let Barcelona lose too much.
In 2019, another Mr. 100 million yuan joined, the French player Griezmann, who performed well in Atletico Madrid and the 2018 World Cup, was signed by Barcelona for 120 million euros, but similar to Coutinho, Griezmann is also very uncomfortable in Barcelona, he needs a strong center forward to help him cover, and controlling the team's rhythm with the ball is also his strength, but he can't play like this in Barcelona, whether it is on the side or the second striker next to Suarez, Griezmann seems to be playing very awkwardly, Barcelona only took two seasons to loan Griezmann back to Atletico Madrid.
Looking at the above-mentioned above, after Neymar left the team, 3 transfer cases of breaking 100 million yuan for frontcourt reinforcement were unsuccessful, and there was a strange operation of Malcolm, which was unsuccessful in the reinforcement, coupled with the poor control of the salary of President Bartomeu, some players such as Umtiti and Clement Lenglet who received high salaries could not help the team much, and encountered the raging epidemic, and the team's income was greatly reduced.
The La Liga salary cap regulations also caused Messi to be unable to renew his contract in 2021 and could only go to Paris Saint-Germain. After the former MSN trio all left, Barcelona also had a headache every year to meet the salary cap regulations, and the source of all this can be traced upwards, perhaps from Neymar's decision to leave.