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PSG took advantage of the signing of Neymar in 2017 to prevent Verratti from arriving at Barça

Published:5/10/2023 - 18:03h

Updated:5/10/2023 - 18:03h

The PSG in 2017 gave a hit on the table in the football when closing the signing of Neymar, a summer in which it also arrived Mbappé, although there was another operation that also was key for the Frenchmen

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Marco Verratti is a footballer that was in the diary of the FC Barcelona during several moments of his career. In fact, in 2017 it was near of fichar by the Barcelona team, but the midfield player finish renewing with Paris Saint-Germain in an operation that changed decisively in question of hours, according to account now the one who went his agent until that operation, Donato Gave Campli.

In statements to 'Calciomercato', Gave Campli spoke of the current player of the To the-Arabi like somebody "without character", gliding that it could have had a much more successful career. "It is somebody without character, always has been like this in the life", reproached to the ex footballer of Fished and PSG. "It preferred to remain in his zone of comfort before that turn into a champion, a sentence that already had said does some time and that there was angry to the sheik", criticised.

The Barça lost to Neymar and remained without Verratti

The agent equally described as they were those days in that it negotiated his arrival to the Barça and that finish in his split like agent of the footballer and in a renewal by four seasons with the PSG. "Ariedo Braida -Ex adviser of the Barça- and the ex sportive director culé Robert Fernández came to Paris, home of Marco. The player gave me green light to initiate the operation, afterwards all stopped ...", rememoró.

And it is that Nasser To the-Khelaifi, president of the PSG, changed radically the intention of the Italian with the already very advanced signing of Neymar by the team Frenchman. "Verratti Said him to the PSG that wanted to go to Barcelona, I was on holiday with him in Ibiza and preferred that from there was directly to Barcelona without going through Paris to train", explained the representative.

The history finished showing the type of player that is Verratti

However, finally Verratti returned to Paris and "Marco was shut in a room in which they said him that they would carry of Barcelona to Neymar, would renew his agreement and would do all what wanted to, although with a condition: it had to sack me like his agent", ensured Say Campli. "It was on 17 July 2017, the same day that my wife was operated of the foot, me enteré that Verratti had changed of agent. But no it said it to me, read it in internet…. I treated to call it to Miami, said me that it was Mino Raiola but was casualidad, only wanted to do the operation of renewal but did not take it like apoderado", signalled, before remembering that "when it changed of agent signed by other four years", admitted the employer.

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