Upon the muffled behind the scenes of the transfer window in the summer of 2021, some stories are almost in the fairy tale. Marco Verratti, the former PSG midfielder and today Al Duhail player in Qatar, confided in an interview with the Gazzetta dello Sport On a moment as unexpected as it is memorable: an evening in Ibiza, in the company of Neymar, Angel Di Maria and Leandro PARDES, who was going to mark a turning point in the history of the Parisian club. That evening, a certain Lionel Messi invites himself to the table, and what was just a dinner with friends took on the appearance of a legendary transfer. The Italian player remembers, with emotion, this magical night …
“”I remember a fantastic, almost magical evening. We were in Ibiza, Neymar came to see me and told me that we died with Leo Messi that evening. So we found ourselves at the table: Leo, Paredes, Ney and Di Maria. We discussed and had a great time. And we have, so to speak, encouraged to come to Paris. Late in the evening, we said to each other, and the next day, we learned that there were problems between him and Barcelona. Then, at the beginning of the afternoon, Neymar called me: “Marco, Leo comes to us. »Incredible: to have it to dinner to have it as a teammate. A magical evening». The rest, we know her.
