[han2503]

All discussion involving other European leagues here

Just to get things rolling, Pogba will apparently have to sit out Man U's first game due to yellow card accumulation in the Coppa Italia (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

[Fillipo Simone]

Agreed. He was still a star at Barca and could have made the move elsewhere. PSG and France were the cop out easy solution to get bucket loads

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He's a star at Barca already. He's loved (or was) by the fans. Messi is 30, Neymar is still young. And had he wanted to really be a STAR he would have chosen another club. He's going to France where he'll be forgotten for the majority of the season by the majority of football watchers as no one really follows PSG avidly in the French league unless they're PSG or League 1 fans to begin with. The amount of coverage he had at Barca will drop significantly now. So how is this not a move for the moula again?

I think you're looking things the wrong way man. Every move out of Barcelona can be considered a move fore the moula. Moving to the EPL would be even more stupid, because Neymar isn't the type of player that would suit English football and he'd soon end up butchered by the various Stones' of the league.

However, at Barcelona he achieved everything. Won CL, won La Liga, everything. He would have always been compared to Messi who's the real boss there and never became the real star, always in a shadow.

A move to PSG makes sense. Teams like Monaco, Nice, even Marseille and Lyon show some interesting competitive signs. Saying that no one will care now that he's gone to a league "that no one watches" other then "league fans" is very simplistic. He'll be the hero of Paris, he can build a new legacy there and take a serious shot at the Champions league, something they really want (and tried) for years now. If he achieves that, he'll be a bigger star than he ever would have been at Barcelona.

What's your question?

I agree with Danny here, you seem to be somehow very dismissive towards the French league and you underestimate them.

Are you denying that it is a second rate league that has about 25% the amount of viewership the EPL/La Liga do?

Second rate league? Man, there's no question, the French league is a top league. That being said, the money lies in the English and Spanish league and will do so for some of the coming years. Does two are, what you probably call, "first tier leagues". But you got spoiled by those standards.