{"id":7244,"date":"2023-08-16T05:14:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T17:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7244"},"modified":"2023-08-16T05:14:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T17:14:18","slug":"neymar-transfer-news-al-hilal-complete-signing-of-brazil-forward-from-paris-st-germain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7244","title":{"rendered":"Neymar transfer news: Al-Hilal complete signing of Brazil forward from Paris St-Germain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qa-introduction gel-pica-bold\" role=\"introduction\" data-reactid=\".2awpgar8jay.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1\"><span data-reactid=\".2awpgar8jay.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1.0\">Brazil forward Neymar has joined Saudi Pro League side Al-Hilal from French champions Paris St-Germain.<\/span><\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\".2awpgar8jay.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2\">\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2awpgar8jay.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0\"><span data-reactid=\".2awpgar8jay.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0.0\">The deal for the former Barcelona player is understood to be worth about 90m euros (\u00a377.6m) plus add-ons.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2awpgar8jay.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.1\">\n<div id=\"bbccom_mpu_1_2_3\" class=\"bbccom_slot bbccom_standard_slot mpu_first_slot\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-reactid=\".2awpgar8jay.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.1.$body-0\">\n<div class=\"bbccom_advert\" data-reactid=\".2awpgar8jay.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.1.$body-0.0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2awpgar8jay.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3\"><span data-reactid=\".2awpgar8jay.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.0\">Neymar, who joined PSG for a\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"story-body__internal-link\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/40762417\" data-reactid=\".2awpgar8jay.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.$link-2\"><span data-reactid=\".2awpgar8jay.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.$link-2.0\">world-record fee of \u00a3200m in 2017,<\/span><\/a><span data-reactid=\".2awpgar8jay.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.3\">\u00a0was left out of their squad for Saturday&#8217;s Ligue 1 draw against Lorient.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2awpgar8jay.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4\"><span data-reactid=\".2awpgar8jay.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.0\">The 31-year-old was not part of coach Luis Enrique&#8217;s plans for the new season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2awpgar8jay.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5\"><span data-reactid=\".2awpgar8jay.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.0\">His exit also fits PSG&#8217;s strategy of moving away from the &#8216;Galacticos&#8217; era of signing high-profile players for big fees and significant wages, with Lionel Messi also leaving the club earlier this summer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2awpgar8jay.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6\"><span data-reactid=\".2awpgar8jay.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6.0\">&#8220;I am here in Saudi Arabia, I am Hilali,&#8221; Neymar said in a video posted to the club&#8217;s social media accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2awpgar8jay.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7\"><span data-reactid=\".2awpgar8jay.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7.0\">The forward was understood to be earning an annual income in the region of 25m euros (\u00a321.6m) at the French side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2awpgar8jay.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8\"><span data-reactid=\".2awpgar8jay.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8.0\">He will reportedly be paid 150m euros (\u00a3129.2m) a year in Saudi Arabia &#8211; six times the amount he earned at PSG.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2awpgar8jay.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9\"><span data-reactid=\".2awpgar8jay.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9.0\">The Brazilian made 173 appearances for PSG, helping the club win 13 trophies, including five Ligue 1 titles, as well as reaching the 2020 Champions League final.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".2awpgar8jay.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9\">\n<p data-reactid=\".2awpgar8jay.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9\">BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil forward Neymar has joined Saudi Pro League side Al-Hilal from French champions Paris St-Germain. The deal for the former Barcelona player is understood to be worth about 90m euros (\u00a377.6m) plus add-ons. Neymar, who joined PSG for a\u00a0world-record fee of \u00a3200m in 2017,\u00a0was left out of their squad for Saturday&#8217;s Ligue 1 draw against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7246,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7244\/revisions\/7246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}