Yes, Barça still wants to recruit Neymar. As the Catalan press tirelessly repeats, the club has made the Brazilian its priority for next summer, a year after the failure of his return. According to Mundo Deportivo, the Blaugrana refine their strategy and have abandoned the idea mentioned at the start of the season to use article 17 of the FIFA transfer regulations.
To sum up roughly, this allows players who have been in a club for three years and who have not renewed their contract (and aged over 27) to be set a starting price. If the unilateral breach of contract “without just cause occurs after the expiration of the protected period (three years spent in a club), it will not result in a sporting sanction”, but “disciplinary measures may be imposed” according to several criteria .
Barça cools down with threats of sanction
This threat of sanction would cool Catalan ardor. The use of this article would be unprecedented and would undoubtedly provoke prosecution of PSG before UEFA, even the sports arbitral tribunal. It would also open up a new avenue in the negotiations which could one day turn against Barça. Too much risk that the Catalans do not wish to take as much as protest actions could delay the beginnings of Neymar since the player could be banned from playing pending resolution of the problem.
Barça focuses its strategy by playing on the player’s desire to return to a club he left in 2017. The stars of the Catalan locker room are largely in favor of the arrival of the Brazilian to breathe new life into a less twirling attack.
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