The Rondo - Neymar

Am I the a**hole or Neymar returning to Santos means he's washed

No, you're not. Neymar is washed, bro. I love Neymar, bro. When I was first, like, really getting into soccer

was when he was at Santos as a teenager going to Barcelona

I remember watching, like, the transfer market, like, YouTube skill breakdown. Bro, I was watching Neymar games

Right, like, yeah. I was watching Santos games. You were actually watching Santos games. I was watching Santos games

Mate, I was just in class, like, Neymar, skills, assists. Like the next Messi question mark with like Danza Kuduro playing in the background

I'm hooping, hooping on a random Tuesday in Copa Libertadores and I'm tapping in, bro

I love that. Do you know what? I thought I was football obsessive. Raheem has just brought that to a next level

It's not his fault. He's been through a lot of injury woes and that's just something that you can't control

That's just your body. um i feel for him that he is because he's still young he's like early 30s and in the soccer world

you still have like five or six decent years ahead of you if you are healthy and have been

healthy consistently throughout your career so i love neymar he rocks i'm happy for him that he's

back at santos we know this is probably going to be the last stop of his career and like going back

home to brazil where your friends are where your family is where it all started where all the drugs

you know uh yeah you know the nightclubs yeah like it's very romantic and i'm happy for him

but neymar is washed i don't think he's entirely good but you got something to offer i think i think

the next 12 months will be absolutely decisive yeah i think if neymar is able to like go back

and prove he can dominate like he did then especially with a world cup in 26 he might have

like another chance to be like you know what i can get back to that level or like near it i'm not

i think he's probably blown his chance of playing in europe now just because he's made the like the

you know the brazilian move and well he screwed it as soon as he made the saudi move didn't he

but like part of me does think like dude if you have 12 good months if you get back to a level

like if you look after yourself if you stay off the booze these are all big asterisks for neymar

by the way then maybe he got some left This gives me so many similarities to when r9 we came back for the 2002 world cup so r9 tore his knee up his patella tendon was literally ripped off the

knee couldn't play for like two years straight he came back i want to say five months before the

2002 world cup he wasn't fully in shape when he was playing but they ended up winning the whole

thing and he scored nine goals in the tournament so like the way i see it is that neymar he comes

back to santos at least show us a little bit of just fitness you know show that you're able to you

know collect the ball not be afraid of tackles because that's the one thing i was seeing in

saudi it's like yeah he was afraid to even like dribble past people and you'd be jumping before

a guy even like tries to tackle him like that's a sign that like you're not physically ready in

your head like mentally it's everything to get past these injuries so for him if he had come

back to brazil and show us even just 70 of what he was able to what he's able to do on the pitch

brazil's gonna play him bro it's not like the brazilian national team is good right now they're

awful they're absolutely awful so here's my question then do you think is it like heartwarming

for you guys are you like oh this is football romanticism or are you just like damn like

how far we done fell i just think that this opportunity cannot go to waste for him like

he needs to understand like bro he probably knows this but like the world cup is literally next year

bro like this is your last chance to win a trophy that you've never won before because everybody

talks about you know like Neymar being arguably one of the greatest Brazilian players of all time

but you can't rank him over Dinho or Ronaldo for a lot of people because he never won a world cup

if he wins a world cup Neymar is is stamped certified really I think he's your go if Neymar

wins the world cup if Neymar comes back and wins a world cup for Brazil as well as with Champions

league what he's done in his career he's arguably one of like the greatest brazilian player of all

time they're not gonna win the world cup i you know what rahim the way that you pitch that maybe

they'll be my team outside the u.s to root for because i think it'll be awesome but i just i

i know people can't see it right yeah but i'm just saying like listen i'm sorry i'm sorry it's

cutting you off he's like i know people can't see it but i see it no i know people can't see it

but it happened before like in 2002 r9 came back yeah from an injury worse than neymar's

literally his knee came off the bone like bro he couldn play for two years and he came back and won a 2002 World Cup So Neymar could show us that listen I may be hurt but I could come back to this World Cup do my thing

And if he wins it, bro... That'd be... He's stamped, bro. I'm telling you

Okay, fair enough. I mean, one thing I do like, though, you know, this idea of, like, players coming back to their clubs

Do you know what I mean? Like, the glorious return. That's the one bit in it for me

Do you know what I mean? Like, part of me, I'm like, come on, man, he's fallen off

But the other thing is, like, I love the romanticism. Like, you've got Neymar to Santos, David Moyes to Everton

a 37-year-old Robbie Fowler to Liverpool when he was fat and couldn't move

Like, I do kind of like the... Players returning back to their clothes

Yeah, man. It's nice. I think that's good, man. It's good for them to come back and just return and just be around familiar faces

Everybody at Santos is super gassed that he's there. They had one center back, an 18-year-old center back

It's actually a funny story. He got sold to Botafogo for $12 million, plus their striker, Tequino Suarez

So they had a swap with $12 million. All knowledge. Neymar came back to Santos, and the 18-year-old center back doesn't want to leave Santos

But Botafogo already paid the money, but he's like, why am I going to leave Santos now

Neymar just came back. I'm going to have all the eyes on me. Why am I going to go to Botafogo

But Botafogo already paid the money. Tequino Suarez has already played two games for Santos

so he has to leave. And also, Botafogo won the Brazilian Serie A

and the Copa Libertadores. Exactly. And he's like, he's like, yeah. He's like

what in the Brazilian league? All that. I just want to play with Neymar, bro. And I don't blame him, bro

That's cool. I don't blame him. That's cool. Where's Neymar going next? He's not going anywhere, dude

He's going to retire. What's the point of him going anywhere? Like, what is he going

to gain out of it? He has all the money in the world. He's back at Santos. I think he's only making

like $166,000 a month. Doesn't even, yeah. So his salary makes sense

He doesn't need the money. He's back at home. Yeah. Back with his family. Familiar territory

You can do whatever the hell you want there. Come back. Get fit. You know, play in the World Cup

You know, what's the point of playing anywhere else? I just don't see the point. I mean, he could run for president of Brazil if he really does

Yeah. Well, you two are fundamentally forgetting something. You sitting here with American accents and you saying that Neymar should stay in Brazil What you think you should come to MLS I don know man Don you The only club he would move to feasibly in MLS would be Miami of course MLS is a hard league to actually play

It's not easy. I know Brazilian League is not easy as well, but you can see in the Brazilian League

there's moments where the game really slows down. And you would know because you've been watching it

since you were 14. And I watch it, yeah. In MLS, guys make up

for their lack of technical ability by running. So it's like Neymar

for guys like Neymar, for guys like Messi, like, obviously they're able to chill because they're the hub of the team

but still, you have to run. You have to be in those pockets. You have to be in those spaces

Messi doesn't have any injuries, anything holding him back. He's not afraid of challenges. I just saw Messi

get two-footed in a friendly today. That was a crazy clip. Yesterday. So it's like

he's getting those and getting back up. If Neymar got a tackle like that, I don't know if he's getting back up

Really? I was, there was this great story about when David Beckham first came to MLS

I wrote about this for God.com. Where he first came to MLS

great story when he first came to mls dallas fc dallas against la galaxy and like first five

minutes someone puts in like a leg breaker on david beckham like knee high and one of one of

the guys it was dax mccarthy who retired recently it's like it's like watching this happen to like

he's watching his teammate tried to kill david beckham and he's like oh my god why has he done

that why has he done that like bex gets up pushes the guy and gets right in his face of course and

i'm like there you go that's how you know yeah you didn't come here for it to be a cupcake league

dude these people are trying to make a living especially like literally guys in mls are literally

making 70k a year bro like they're making like regular job salaries like they're hungry bro

what you expect if that were me 100 i'm two-footing david back there's no question about it dude

I have to drive my Hyundai Sonata back to the apartment that I'm renting with the rest of the people who work normal jobs

David Beckham's about to go hop in his private jet with his Spice Girl wife. I'm two-footing him right in the shin and letting him know that I am there

I'm there. I'm there, bro. Like, I'm making 40 bands a year. You making, like, hella males

Hell no. You're going to have to get two-footed, bro. I'm two-footing him right in the shins. For sure, bro

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