Barcelona fan begs Josep Maria Bartomeu for Neymar
Barcelona and Real Madrid are currently scrapping for Neymar who, after just two years at PSG, has decided it’s time to leave the Parc des Princes behind.
On Wednesday, it emerged that Real were willing to pay a massive £114million and throw in Luka Modric as part of a deal to bring the Brazil international to the Bernabeu.
Barcelona have not lost hope, however, and Catalan newspaper Sport say they are still very much in the race for Neymar’s signature.
They believe that the 27-year-old would prefer a Nou Camp return than any move to Real Madrid.
However, they still fear Florentino Perez will be able to persuade their top target into heading to the capital.
As a result, the report says Barcelona think Real will only give up on Neymar should he go public with his desire to return.
Gerard Pique recently endorsed this, saying: “If the possibility arises, I would be thrilled to have him here, but it's a complicated deal and he's a PSG player now.
"Of course we speak to him.
"But those are private conversations and it's not convenient to say what we talk about. In the end it has to be him that says what he wants.
Barcelona and Real Madrid are scrapping it out to land PSG star Neymar (Image: GETTY)
Barcelona want Neymar to publicly quash Real Madrid rumours (Image: GETTY)
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“Whenever you hear a club official being asked about a transfer, as one of Barcelona’s directors was over the weekend, and using the phrase ‘at the moment nothing is happening’, you’ve just got to emphasise the caveat of ‘at the moment’.
“He’s not saying nothing is going to happen or we don’t want the player, we haven’t been working on the player, it’s just that that deal isn’t in effect at present.
“We know that Neymar’s preference, at least the preference he’s expressed to Barcelona, is that he wants to come back to the club and to his former team-mates - and most notably Lionel Messi.
“Barcelona have offered something to Paris St-Germain which is unacceptable to them in terms of not wanting to go over a cash figure of €70m [£65m] and adding players in the hope that they can get them off their own wage bill and subsidise that transfer fee.”