{"id":67864,"date":"2019-08-10T11:35:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T11:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=67864"},"modified":"2019-08-10T11:35:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T11:35:56","slug":"real-madrid-go-head-to-head-with-barcelona-for-neymar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/real-madrid-go-head-to-head-with-barcelona-for-neymar\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid go head-to-head with Barcelona for Neymar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Real Madrid will rival Barcelona in the race to sign Paris Saint-Germain striker Neymar this summer, according to reports in the Spanish press on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Madrid have shifted focus to Neymar after the close of the English Premier League\u2019s transfer window on Thursday ended their hopes of signing Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba.According to Marca, Neymar has \u201creturned to the scene\u201d with the club \u201cbelieving for some time that the team is lacking a big star up front\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barcelona newspaper Mundo Deportivo says the 27-year-old will wait until August 20 for Barcelona to make a decisive move, after which \u201cPSG\u2019s number 10 does not rule out any option in order to leave the French champions, where it is clear he does not want to stay any longer\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Mundo adds that \u201cit is clear Neymar wants to play for Barcelona\u201d while Diario Sport agrees, writing that \u201cthe winning card Barca continues to hold is the will of the striker to reunite with players like Leo Messi and Luis Suarez. With them he has a great understanding on the pitch and also a strong friendship off it.\u201d      <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marca believes Madrid also have factors in their favour. \u201cNeymar\u2019s priority is not to go to Barcelona. His priority is to leave the PSG,\u201d wrote Marca, also citing their \u201cmagnificent relationship\u201d with PSG, \u201cquite the opposite\u201d of how the French club view Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luka Modric is mentioned as a possible makeweight while Philippe Coutinho, who reportedly rejected an offer from Tottenham this week, could be included in an offer from Barcelona.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid will rival Barcelona in the race to sign Paris Saint-Germain striker Neymar this summer, according to reports in the Spanish press on Friday. Madrid have shifted focus to Neymar after the close of the English Premier League\u2019s transfer window on Thursday ended their hopes of signing Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba.According to Marca, [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67866,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67864\/revisions\/67866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}