– Al Hilal has received little in return for the Neymar transition in terms of football. But with consideration for PR, attention and attracting other stars to the Saudi league, it may well be that they are satisfied nonetheless, says TV 2 commentator Mina Finstad Berg. Mina Finstad Berg clarifies that Neymar does not have the same status as Cristiano Ronaldo, but that his star status is so high that the transfer may have been important nonetheless. Photo: TV 2 Øyvind Ganesh Eknes / TV 2 According to Talksport, Neymar received an annual salary of 138 million pounds when he signed for Al Hilal in the summer of 2023. With an exchange rate of 14.13 (as of November 8), this means an annual salary of 1.95 billions of Norwegian kroner. Around 15 months into the contract, Neymar has therefore spent more than NOK 2.4 billion. With 7 official matches in 15 months, that means around NOK 350 million per match. – These are extreme figures, says news’s football expert Carl-Erik Torp. Regardless of injuries, Carl-Erik Torp thinks that Neymar’s career has gone downhill over many years. Photo: Birk Pessl-Kleiven / news However, he does not think the owners of the Saudi league see these numbers in the same way. – Sportingly, they haven’t got what they paid for, but they’ve been told about the transition. It is probably at least as important for the owners, Torp believes. Neymar Neymar, or Neymar Junior, is actually called Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior. The Brazilian attacker was born on 5 February 1992. His achievements include one gold in the Meisterliga and two in La Liga with Barcelona, in addition to five league championships with French PSG. He has also won Olympic gold with Brazil. In August 2023, Neymar was sold from PSG to Saudi Arabian Al-Hilal. His annual salary corresponds to close to NOK 2 billion. Al-Hilal won the Saudi Arabian league in Neymar’s first season, but the Brazilian only managed three league games and two in the Asian Champions League. In a total of seven games in 15 months, Neymar has scored one goal. Injured again After five games for Al Hilal in autumn 2023, Neymar was injured in a Brazil match against Uruguay. Even with the fact that he had to be operated on for a torn cruciate ligament and a destroyed meniscus. The comeback this autumn has so far been of the short kind. Neymar’s Al Hilal stayNeymar will be ready for Al Hilal. Neymar makes his debut for Al Hilal in a league match against Al-Riyadh. He comes in from the bench and scores an assist. Neymar scores against Nassaji Mazandaran in the Asian Champions League. This is so far his only score for Al Hilal. In an international match against Uruguay, one of Neymar’s cruciate ligaments tears off, in addition to the meniscus being injured. Neymar makes a comeback for Al Hilal in the Asian Champions League, when he got 13 minutes on bana against A-Ain. In a championship match against Esteghlal on Monday 4 November, Neymar came on after 58 minutes, but had to leave again with an injury three minutes before full time. There is speculation as to whether Neymar will be out for 4-6 weeks. Show more – Neymar is not a simple case. From a medical point of view, his knee is fine, but at the same time he will have other problems, such as muscle problems, because he has not played for a long time, said coach Jorge Jesus according to NTB – after Neymar was once again injured this week. Neymar photographed in the stands this autumn. Photo: Reuters The authorities are in control In June 2023, Saudi Arabia’s PIF, the authorities’ public investment fund, announced that they had taken control of four of Saudi Arabia’s biggest clubs: Al Hilal, Al Ahli, Al Ittihad and Al Nassr. The investment fund will have 75 percent ownership in the four clubs. Neymar plays for Al Hilal, while Cristiano Ronaldo is the big star at All Nassr. – Should be the golden calf Mina Finstad Berg says the story of Neymar is also a story of an enormous talent that has been swept away. – He went from Barcelona to PSG to break out of Messi’s shadow, but it went up and down. Then came the injuries. Neymar was supposed to be the next great after Messi and Ronaldo, but even though he has won some major titles, it was never like that, says the TV 2 commentator. Carl-Erik Torp thinks Neymar’s career development after his stay in Barcelona, which ended when he was 25 in 2017, has generally been sad. – Neymar was supposed to be the golden calf to take over from Messi. His fall is one of the biggest and saddest in football history. He was actually finished at the age of 26-27. But if you look back, Neymar’s career has been successful when you see what he has put in, says the news expert. Although he was often overshadowed by Lionel Messi, Neymar had a good stay in Barcelona, where he won the Champions League in 2015. Photo: AFP Published 08.11.2024, at 11.06
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