Paris Saint-Germain spent a CAP by focusing the services of Javier Pastore in the summer of 2011 for 42 million euros, coming from Palermo. A record amount at the time for the capital's club. It will finally be widely exceeded during the recruitment of Neymar, coming from FC Barcelona, for 222 million euros during the 2017 summer transfer window.
If this amount remains the highest recorded to date ever for a transfer, Pastore does not seem to judge this disproportionate price with regard to the talent of the Brazilian superstar. For him, the child of Mogi Das Cruzes is, without a doubt, the best player – after Lionel Messi – to have evolved by his side.
“Neymar is much more than a player”
“We did not think that a player could have such market value. But to see him play against us and then have it as a teammate, the price was too small. He revolutionized French, and European football with his arrival in Barcelona ”, El Flaco entrusted to Madrid daily
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“It was crazy to have him as a partner and to live everything that was going on around him. Neymar is much more than a football player. After Leo (Messi), he is the best with whom I played. He broke football, he broke everything, because of the magnitude of his transfer ”, continued Pastore.
