The reason why Barça 'advanced' the signing of Neymar Jr is revealed

In the middle of the trial by the case Neymar Jr, Andoni Zubizarrieta, the exdirector sportive of the FC Barcelona, has spoken on the reasons that carried to the Barcelona picture to speed up his process to concretise the signing of the Brazilian attacker. Likewise, it spoke on his role in the traspaso and the one of Josep María Bartomeu, that was minimum. Sandro Rosell, then president, went the most involved.

It has desvelado that the main reason by which the Barça accelerated the processes for fichar to Neymar was the injury of David Villa, the one who "had suffered a very grave injury in the World-wide of Clubs and with Tito Vilanova, in a meeting in 2013 in New York, decide to advance the signing, because anyway we went to have to do a big investment by a player of this type".

Zubizarrieta Aimed that fichar to Neymar was "the main option", but that the preferential alternative on three footballers was "a parallel operation". It said, in concrete, that "the Barcelona bought an option in case the Saints sells. And being the Barcelona a world-wide reference, agreed collaboration between both clubs. There was a follow-up, yes, and is frequent to work with clubs to anticipate in players very young, whose price can shoot when they arrive to his first teams".

Roles of the operation

On the other hand, it spoke of the roles in the operation. It said that he "andncargaba of the sportive part, very little of the financial part", whereas "Bartomeu participated little in the signing. With the gentleman president the relation was more intense. The gentleman Rosell had a lot knowledge of the Brazilian market".

Of the same way, the exdirector sportive Barcelona added that "the main option was fichar to Neymar and was what wanted like club, the thing is that there was a structure of team and here was necessary to go fitting the times of the agreements of ones and the ending of another. When we knew that we could go to by the signing, went". It stood out, finally, the protocol of signatures and that did not know if it had signed the one of 'Ney': "it was not compulsory, was known by the sportive and economic vice-president, by the juridical area…".