With recent statements on the Podpah podcast in his hometown, Brazilian soccer superstar Neymar unwittingly drew attention to elements of a terrible past between FC Barcelona and club legend Pep Guardiola.
During the aforementioned sitdown interview with the popular show, Neymar said that Real Madrid president Florentino Perez offered him a “blank check” to join Los Blancos from boyhood club Santos in the early 2010s.
Furthermore, ‘Ney’ shared another story in public for the first time, revealing how Guardiola attempted to lure the forward away to Bayern Munich despite the fact that he had already committed to Barcelona. Reported By Forbes News.
“I almost went to Bayern [Munich],” Neymar originally stated on the subject, with Guardiola departing Barcelona to take a one-year vacation before taking over the Bavarians’ coaching duties in 2013.
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“After winning the Puskas prize, my father called me at 2 a.m. I responded, and he instructed me to open the door… I was in my underwear. There was my father, Pep Guardiola, and a translator! Pep told me, “I want to sign you and take you with me no matter which club I go to.” “I will make you the best player in the world,” Neymar recalls.
“He showed me a piece of paper, opened his laptop, and told me where I could play… Pep added, ‘If you don’t score 60 goals in In a season, I will alter my name. I said, ‘Okay, but which team? Pep told me he couldn’t tell me, but I persuaded him, and he told me: ‘I’ll sign for Bayern’,” the 33-year-old recalled, before reminding us that he eventually ended up at Camp Nou, where he wanted to play with Lionel Messi.
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