Inter Miami owner Jorge Mas wants to continue to shore up his team around Lionel Messi with a view to winning their first league title in history and he knows that the window is closing. Therefore, in recent days he has admitted that he would like to bring none other than Neymar to his team, if he were available. This is because the Brazilian star’s contract is still in force with Al-Hilal of the Sudi Pro League until next summer
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In an interview with GiveMeSport, Jorge Mas indicated that they are open to bringing in Neymar, to revive the successful MSN trident (Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar) that was so successful with Barcelona last decade, as long as the conditions exist to do so, i.e. without paying his release clause to Al-Hilal:
The key word is if he was available. Neymar is not available to us now. I have always said that we aspire to bring great players to our team. We have many limitations and restrictions in the squad, but we have an unlimited budget
“We are aspirational. If there is ever a possibility to bring in the calibre of a player like Neymar, we will not hesitate. It’s not just up to me. It’s up to the player and the league. But yes, we aspire to build a great squad here,” he added
Neymar is in a difficult part of his career as his move to the Saudi league has been a complete failure, mainly due to injuries. A torn ligament in his knee caused him to lose a year, from October 2023, but on his return he has now suffered a new hamstring injury.
As if that were not enough, the club deregistered him to make room for another foreign reinforcement, so when Neymar is ready, he will only be able to play if one of his foreign teammates leaves the team.
Messi maintains close contact with Neymar
In the same vein, Lionel Messi said that he maintains close contact with his former teammate through a Whatsapp chat. He also said that he would like to have him back in his team, but for the moment, it is complicated. “It’s difficult now,” he said in an interview in June:
“I don’t know. The truth is that now it is difficult. He is in Saudi Arabia and I think he has one year left on his contract (until June 2025). He had a difficult year, in which he was injured for a long time. So, it’s difficult now. After that, I don’t know. Life takes so many turns that anything can happen, but I think, for now, no.”
Neymar and Messi played together in 206 games for Barcelona (2013-2017) and Paris Saint-Germain (2021-2023), recording 67 joint goal involvements. While at Barcelona they created the trident with Luis Suarez that won the continental treble in 2014-15. In fact, if Neymar manages to join Inter Miami, he will become the only player to have shared a dressing room with Lionel Messi at three different clubs.
He would also be reunited with other former Barcelona teammates such as Sergio Busquets, Jordi Alba and the team’s new coach, Javier Mascherano