"Neymar is the cheapest player in PSG history"

Andre Cury reminds PSG of the Brazil international’s massive contribution to the club’s success.

Neymar played a crucial role in bringing Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi to Pars Saint-Germain, according to agent Andre Cury.

The Brazilian winger arrived at PSG on a €222m deal in 2017. His performances have failed to lead the club to a long-awaited Champions League trophy. But Cury believes Neymar’s off-the-pitch contribution has played a key role in PSG’s rise to prominence.

Speaking to AS, the prominent agent said: “Everything [Neymar] has given PSG is priceless. He is the cheapest player in the club’s history because just what he gave to Paris in marketing is incredible.

“If you go to any part of the world, surely there is a boy with a PSG shirt and they didn’t even know what that club was before. In the end Messi, Mbappe, Di María and the likes arrived.

“Taking out Neymar and Mbappe, we will hardly find operations of a hundred million or more that go well. Most of those operations when you pay so much money have not gone well. At Barcelona, none: [Ousmane] Dembele, [Antoine] Griezmann, [Philippe] Coutinho. In Madrid: [Eden] Hazard, [Gareth] Bale more or less.

“At Atletico Madrid they paid €126 million for Joao Felix, and €80m or €90m for Thomas Lemar. At Chelsea, they have paid a lot of money and nothing.”