Barcelona was very close to getting Neymar back in the summer of 2019, Javier Bordás reveals in the Spanish media. According to the former Barça board member, the arrival of Neymar, two years after he had just left Catalonia for Paris Saint-Germain, came to an amount of twenty million euros.

Last year, rumors about Neymar’s possible return to Barcelona were persistent, but never before has the exact offer that Paris Saint-Germain got out. “Whether Barcelona was serious? Yes, we did everything we could to get him back,” Bordás said. COPE. “We were very close.” The ex-board member says that Barcelona offered an amount of 110 million euros, including three players: Ivan Rakitic, Ousmane Dembélé and Jean-Clair Todibo.

“But Paris Saint-Germain wanted 130 million euros plus those three players,” said Bordás. Barcelona did not want to make up for the difference of twenty million euros, so the transfer bounced. “Neymar’s father promised that he would make up the difference of twenty million euros himself,” said Bordás. “But that didn’t happen in the end.” So Neymar stayed in France, and given the current financial problems at Barcelona, ​​a return of the Brazilian forward seems completely out of the question.

Bordás told opposite earlier this week Mundo Deportivo that Barcelona in 2017 thought of Kylian Mbappé as the successor to the then just departed Neymar. “The chairman of AS Monaco preferred that Mbappé would go to Barcelona to not strengthen a direct rival like PSG. And it could have happened for a hundred million euros. But Robert Fernández (then technical secretary, ed.) Preferred Ousmane Dembélé because Mbappé would play more for himself and Dembélé more in the interest of the team. ”