“I Turned Down A Blank Check From Madrid Because Barça Was My Dream.” Neymar On The Podcast ‘Podpah’.

Igao asked about Neymar’s proposal after Santos. And he simply dropped that Guardiola wanted to take him to Bayern and would make him score 60 goals per season.

Neymar: “I almost went to Bayern [in 2013] because of Guardiola. I was in Switzerland to receive the Puskas award and was in my room. My father called me at 2 in the morning. My father, Guardiola and the translator were there.

“Guardiola told me he wanted to take me to the club he was going to. He said he would do his best for me. He took his laptop, paper, and told me everything. He said that if I didn’t score 60 goals in a year, he would change teams. I asked him which club he was going to, and he said he couldn’t tell me.

“I asked him ‘please’, and he said he was going to sign for Bayern. He said he knew it was a cold city, not like Barcelona or Madrid, but he promised he would take care of me and make me the best.

“I decided to go to Barcelona, but I really thought about going to Bayern.


“When I left Santos, I decided to play for Barcelona because of Messi. Real Madrid offered me a higher salary, but my heart chose Barcelona, ​​Messi and Ronaldinho played there. My dream was to play with Messi.”

Neymar Talking About The Day Messi Went To Ask Him How He Took Penalties That Way.

“I helped Messi take penalties. He [Messi] was like, how do you take penalties like that?

 I said, are you crazy? You’re Messi, if I can do it, you can too. Then I taught him and he trained.”

 In the World Cup, he scored several penalty goals like that.”

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