A media leaked an email between Blaugrana leaders in which they explained the reason for his departure: threat, personal problems, and "I have made him cry more than once...".
The magazine published an email that Raul Sanllehí, who was Barça's football director, sent to the president Josep Maria Bartomeu, and the CEO, Òscar Grau, among other directors, where he explains the reasons that led the Brazilian to leave the club to mid-2017 to sign for PSG, which paid the 222 million euros of his termination clause. The email was sent just three days before Ney signed with the Parisian club and detailed the conversations he had had hand in hand with the ex-Santos' father.
"Today I was, in agreement with Óscar [Grau], at Ney Pai's house to test the situation. I found an angry man with a great desire for war. Very upset with the club," he explained. The anger was due to the leak of the transfer bonus that his son had signed a year before when renewing his contract with the club, which amounted to 64.4 million gross euros, of which 43.65 had to be paid the same day. The rest, Barcelona wanted to wait to pay it when they knew that he could leave.
On the other hand, Sanllehí assured that, days before, Ney's father was "on Barça's side." "For weeks he has shown me that he has been working to convince his son not to make the mistake of going to PSG," he said. Furthermore, during the conversations he had with the father, "he has never talked about asking for more money, he has repeatedly asked me for help and to speak personally with his son", something that "in the five previous negotiations, he never left me alone with he".
The problems that led Neymar to leave Barcelona
"I have told you all separately that the problem in this case was the player's head. The boy is in a bad way, he has many personal problems, he is very confused, and is very vulnerable. So he mistakenly thought that by fleeing from Barcelona he would also flee from his problems (when really what he should do is face them and not leave). I have spoken directly to him, repeatedly, I have made him cry more than once, and he has admitted to me on more than one occasion that he was lost," said Sanllehí.. And he added: "The teammates have been sensational, supporting him until the end (but in the end they have ended up getting fed up, like me, like all of us)."
Then, he continued explaining the betrayal that Neymar's father felt: "I have been dedicated to the father during the last weeks. I have talked for hours and hours. I assure you that he was with us, until the last two or three days, when very mistaken and Unfairly, he felt betrayed when the day before the Miami game the subject of the pending signing bonus was published. He interpreted that the club had leaked it to pressure him (and he even took it as a threat). And this is when We started to lose him... Obviously, I have defended that in no case had it been leaked by us, but he told me that it is like the fart in the elevator in which you are only with one other person. The other person blew it. It doesn't fail."
"In short, since that leak this man has begun to convince himself that it is not appropriate to try to get his son to stay ('I don't trust you, you have deceived me repeatedly: since Sandro [Rosell] abandoned me and threw to the horses, going through Barto's promise not to make an agreement with the treasury and even the back-and-forth with the Sao Paulo office and now this leak of the signing bonus')", he detailed. "He told me that if he does not collect the payment (of the signing bonus) today, he will have legal arguments to resolve the contract. 'Then you will not see the 222 million and we will see, as a free player, where he plays from now on,'" he concluded. the director of Blaugrana football at that time.
