Will Madrid still want Neymar after PSG?

World's most expensive player might well consider himself a Madrid star-in-waiting but his season among facile competition could leave him unprepared

The challenges in French football are so far beneath Neymar that many have long speculated that he is picking and choosing which games to play and which ones to avoid.
Consider it a perk of the job.
Last week he threw himself a 26th birthday party immense in its dimensions, inviting along all his Paris Saint-Germain team-mates – or to put it more specifically – all those other footballers who work on behalf of Project Neymar.
The night after, most of those players who had attended his self promotion exercise at the Pavillon Cambon where they were entertained by reggaeton superstar Maluma were back on the field to play against Sochaux in the Coupe de France. Neymar wasn’t. He was excused again.

That is just one example of the privilege Neymar is said to enjoy since becoming the world’s most expensive player last summer when PSG paid his €222 million buyout clause to Barcelona.
Another would be the penalties. Neymar put Edinson Cavani in his place earlier in the season when taking control of those duties in a spat which threatened to overshadow the job coach Unai Emery was hired to complete.
It has been reported in El Pais this week that the Spanish trainer was requested to dial down the duration and intensity of his video sessions in preparation for matches on behalf of certain players said to be growing bored of them.
Under those circumstances it is impossible for Emery or any other coach to rein in Neymar. There is no way he can drop him – unless Neymar himself decides not to play. There is no way to discipline him if needs be seeing as the No. 10 has a direct line to Nasser Al Khelaifi – the PSG president – who pulled out all the stops to ensure his signing in the first place and who is doing everything to make sure he’s happy.
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