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Chapter 489 MSN disintegrates! I became Neymar's substitute? !
Neves was of course ecstatic when he received the olive branch from Mourinho and Manchester United, and he agreed without hesitation.

As for the club, Porto was unable to keep this young talent from the team who wanted to change his environment.

With Mendes' help, the deal went through very quickly.

On July 7, the day after Manchester United's pre-season match in the United States, Romano once again "blackmailed the dog" on social media:
"Black dog! Manchester United and Porto have reached an agreement, 20-year-old defensive midfielder Ruben Neves is about to join!"

That afternoon, Neves, accompanied by Mendes, arrived at the legendary Carrington base in a nanny car arranged by the club.

Getting off the car and looking at this base that carries Manchester United's century-old history, Neves couldn't help but take a deep breath, and then walked into the base under the guidance of the club staff.

After arriving at the medical room and undergoing a simple physical examination, Neves was led by the staff to tour the interior of the club.

Just then, a black-haired young man in a black and red training suit came towards them from the end of the corridor.

Seeing the person coming, Nevis suddenly perked up.

He recognized the person who came; it was the new captain of Manchester United - Ling Feng!
"Welcome to Manchester United, mate!"

Facing Ling Feng's friendly attitude and the right hand he offered, Neves hurriedly stretched out his hand and shook it vigorously:
"Thanks, Captain!"

The word "Captain" made Ling Feng smile even brighter: "How's your English?"

"Only a little."

Hearing this, Ling Feng immediately switched the language system to Portuguese, patted Neves on the shoulder, and said softly:

"It's okay. If you need anything, you can tell me. The other teammates will help you integrate into this big family. You're welcome."

"Thank you very much, Captain."

"Uh-huh. Jorge, how are you?"

Looking at Ling Feng greeting Mendes on the side, Neves felt ripples in his heart.

The very handsome young man in front of me was only two years older than me.

However, he has become the captain of Manchester United, the best midfielder in the Premier League and even the best in the world!
On the other hand, I can't even play as a starter in the Portuguese Super League
However, he is looking forward to learning a lot in a top club like Manchester United.

Especially this team has a world-class coach like Mourinho and the world's best midfielder like Ling Feng!
Although he had never seen Ling Feng play football in person.

However, he has seen Ling Feng's highlights on YouTube more than once, and has also heard Ling Feng's story from Mendes.

Unstoppable violent long-range shots, accurate and deadly passes, simple and rough passing
In his eyes, Ling Feng is the self in his dreams!

Just for the opportunity to play alongside a world-class player like Ling Feng, he felt that his decision to join Manchester United was a very wise one!

After completing the medical examination and taking official photos and videos, Manchester United announced Neves' joining on its official website!
"I am very happy to announce a good news to everyone. Ruben Neves has officially joined Manchester United! We have signed a five-year contract with him!"

At this point, after Maguire and Lukaku, Neves has become Manchester United's third signing in the summer window!
Manchester United, which spent 1.3 million pounds in the summer window, has become the second biggest spender in the Premier League after Manchester City!
It is worth mentioning that on the same day that Neves officially joined Manchester United, Januzai, a genius promoted in the Van Gaal era, left Old Trafford, where he was once cheered, and transferred to Real Sociedad in La Liga for a fee of nearly 10 million euros!

The Red Devils fans who heard the news were also deeply saddened.

Back then, Ling Feng, who had just been promoted to the Premier League with Leicester City, faced off against Januzaj for the first time in the first match against Manchester United.

However, in that game, Ling Feng's performance completely crushed Januzai, who could only dribble the ball silently.

It even made the opposing head coach Van Gaal think of "buy him!"

In the end, with Ling Feng's amazing performance, newly promoted Leicester City defeated the former Premier League champion Manchester United 5-3 at home!

Perhaps it was because of that game that Ling Feng left a deep impression on many Red Devils fans.

It was also after that game that the two people who were born in the same year experienced a dramatic change in their circumstances:

Januzai, the star who was once highly expected by Manchester United, has gradually lost his aura during his loan.

Ling Feng led Leicester City all the way to the top of the Premier League and the Europa League, and step by step became the golden boy of Europe, the hope of Britain for the next ten years, and now the boss of Manchester United!

The two people's completely different career development trajectories also make people sigh:
Fate, how unpredictable it is
. . .

For Mourinho and Manchester United, this summer transfer window has been perfect so far.

They released Rooney, the Premier League's biggest contract player, to strengthen the three key positions of front, middle and back, and the team's strength and lineup depth have been significantly improved.

However, their rivals for the championship did not sit back and watch the show.

Manchester City spent £200 million to upgrade their defense;
Chelsea introduces three strong reinforcements (Morata, Bakayoko, Rudiger)

Liverpool has signed the "Egyptian striker" Salah and the "nickname king of football" Chamberlain, and is still trying to sign Van Dijk from Southampton!
Obviously, in the new season, Manchester City, Chelsea, Liverpool, and even Arsenal, Tottenham and other teams will do their best to prevent Manchester United from defending the Premier League title again.

Looking at the top five European leagues, perhaps the only one more active than the two Manchester City giants in the summer window is AC Milan in Serie A!

Under the leadership of new boss Li Ge, AC Milan has already started large-scale purchases before the summer transfer window even began.

By August, they had signed such well-known players as Bonucci, R. Ronaldo, Andre Silva, Calhanoglu, Musacchio, Biglia, Conte Jr., Borini and so on.

The newly transferred players are even enough to form a brand new starting lineup!

Of course, among these people, some are stars with both strength and fame, some are powerful veterans, and some are rising potential stars.

However, for Milan fans, such continuous signings prove that the new team management still wants to make a difference.

However, no transfer deal exceeded 50 million euros.

However, they intend to win by quantity!
However, as the transfer window entered August, all the traffic in the football world was snatched away by French Ligue 1 giants Paris Saint-Germain and Neymar!

"Paris is interested in Neymar!"

"Neymar tried to escape Barcelona!"

"Shocked! The Brazilian leader is about to become the new king of Paris?!"

After years of failure to reach the top of the Champions League and the double stimulus of losing the Ligue 1 title last year, the top management of the Paris Saint-Germain team realized that after Ibrahimovic's departure, they needed a superstar to reverse the decline both in terms of competition and in restoring the confidence of fans!

Moreover, the successful example of Manchester United signing Ling Feng last year taught them valuable experience. If they were to sign, they should sign players who could shock the football world!

In the context of the era when the two great players are unlikely to transfer, there are only two people who are recognized as the most likely to become the new king of football:

One is Ling Feng, the top midfielder of Great Britain who is regarded as the best midfielder in the world by many football legends!
One is Neymar, who was once the third strongest player in the world and is recognized as the leader of the Samba Army!
However, the former just led Manchester United to win the season treble last year and is Manchester United's absolute number one star.

Moreover, he is very comfortable in the new Champions League champion team and enjoys a lofty status as the center of attention, so it is impossible for him to transfer.

So they chose the latter which gave them an opportunity!
Faced with Paris's private seduction, Neymar, who has long wanted to be the team's boss, got carried away.

With the news and signs that Neymar was about to leave Barcelona breaking out in late July, Paris Saint-Germain dropped an atomic bomb on the football world on August 8:

This directly triggered Neymar's 2.22 million euro buyout clause, bringing the Brazilian star and Barcelona crown prince, nicknamed "Samba Dancer", to Paris, France!
With Paris Saint-Germain officially announcing Neymar's joining, the entire football world was shocked!

Paris Saint-Germain's move to trigger Neymar's buyout clause was too crazy and too unexpected.

2.22 million euros, almost double the first transfer fee in football last year when Ling Feng transferred to Manchester United for 1.15 million euros!
For a time, the attention of the entire football world was attracted by this transfer.

Major media outlets also rushed to report on the deal, trying to get a piece of the pie.

The first to take action was L'Equipe

They revealed the salary and personal treatment that Paris gave to Neymar:

Private jet transfers!
Prepare luxury hotel accommodation and luxury cars for round-trip transportation for the accompanying group;
The weekly salary before tax is 76 pounds, and the annual salary after tax is as high as million euros!
Such a high salary directly surpassed Ronaldo and was on par with Messi, becoming the second highest paid in football.

That’s right, even with such a horrific salary, it cannot compete with Tevez who plays in the Chinese Super League.

However, that is a product of the deformed era of money-driven football and does not represent anything.

Behind such a high salary, it represents Paris's importance to Neymar.

This may be what Neymar wants:
Money and respect!

In last year's Champions League, Neymar led Barcelona to a stunning reversal against Paris.

In that game, everyone would admit that Neymar was the biggest contributor to the reversal.

none of them!

But while he was expecting praise, all the credit went to Messi.

In Barcelona’s victory poster after the game, Messi is the star of the show.

Barcelona didn't even give him a cheap poster, so how could they support him in competing for the Ballon d'Or?!
This made Neymar feel lost, and also made him deeply aware that in a team with Messi, no matter how good he was, he would never be able to surpass him.

If you want to be the best in the world, you must first be the best in your team!
According to Mundo Deportivo, during the period when the United States participated in the International Champions Cup, which was on the eve of his transfer to Paris, after learning that Neymar was planning to leave, many Barcelona players tried their best to retain Neymar.

The funniest thing is that before the transfer happened, Pique posted a photo with Neymar on social media and wrote "He stayed"

The result was a slap in the face!
When Ling Feng saw this news, he laughed out loud.

"Mundo Deportivo" revealed some details of Messi and Suarez in the hotel room on the eve of the transfer.

In order to retain Neymar, Messi even made a promise: "Do you want to win the Ballon d'Or? Then I will do my best to make you win the Ballon d'Or!"

Of course, whether Messi really said this in private, perhaps only the person involved knows.

However, even so, Neymar, who had made up his mind, chose to leave and go to Paris to start a new journey!
With Neymar's departure, the historical trident MSN combination that once frightened the entire football world has disintegrated.
. . .

However, Neymar's transfer not only shocked the entire football world, but also triggered a series of chain reactions!
After Paris poached the team's crown prince and future, Barcelona could only wipe away tears with the money in their hands while starting to look for Neymar's replacement.

And Barcelona has set its sights on five major targets!

They are Ling Feng of Manchester United, Mbappe of Paris Saint-Germain, Coutinho of Liverpool, Ousmane Dembele of Dortmund, and Hazard of Chelsea!

And the primary goal is to lead Manchester United to win the Champions League in his first season with the team!
Last season, in the two encounters in the Champions League group stage, Ling Feng's performance was simply unstoppable, leaving a deep impression on Barcelona's top management and players.

Barcelona president Bartomeu said in an interview with the media:

"Ling Feng is a super genius who has attracted worldwide attention."

"And this young man, who is only 22 years old, has proved himself to be one of the best midfielders in the world today. He will fill Neymar's position very well and form a new trident with Messi and Suarez!"

Later, "AS" broke the news that after the Champions League match last season, Barcelona players including Messi and Suarez admired Ling Feng very much and felt that he was very suitable for Barcelona's tactical style.

Barcelona's new coach Valverde also publicly praised that if Ling Feng joins the team, he will definitely replace Iniesta and become the brain of Barcelona's midfield!
Originally, Ling Feng didn't care about the media hype at all.

He knows very well that in order to gain traffic, the media will write any article.

However, when he received a call from Mendes, he learned that Barcelona was actually interested in him!
"Barca asked about your transfer intention."

Hearing this, Ling Feng was stunned at first, then his mouth twitched, and he complained in his heart:
Oops!

I became Neymar's substitute?!

Go to Barcelona to form a new trident combination with Messi and Suarez?

Is the group called MSL or MSF?

Shaking his head and putting these messy thoughts behind him, Ling Feng did not answer, but asked back:

"Jorge, what do you think?"

"I understand your idea."

Mendes and Ling Feng himself knew very well that there was no way he could go to Barcelona!
In Manchester United, he is the team's top player, the captain who has the final say, and the team boss who has unlimited firing rights and tactical status!

Instead of being the boss of a good team, you go to Barcelona to be Messi's little brother?

With his current upward momentum, even if he joins Barcelona, ​​it would be almost enough for Messi to step down and assist him to ascend the throne!
Besides, if he really wanted to curry favor with someone powerful, he would have gone to Real Madrid last year.

Why wait until now!
Therefore, after receiving the olive branch from Barcelona, ​​Ling Feng couldn't help but start to doubt:
Are the Barcelona executives crazy, or do they think they are crazy? !
(End of this chapter)