Neymar likely to join Santos after the termination of the Al -Hilal contract by mutual consent – Firstpost

Brazilian star footballer Neymar is ready to return to his childhood club Santos after having officially put an end to his 18-month stay in prey to an injury to Al-Hilal on Monday. The Saudi Pro League Club said that he had “agreed to terminate the player’s contract by mutual consent”.

“The club expresses its thanks and its appreciation in Neymar for what he provided throughout his career with Al-Hilal, and wishes the player the success of his career,” said the al-Hilal declaration.

There are rumors that Neymar can join Lionel Messi in the MLS in the United States, but the popular football journalist Fabrizio Romano said on Monday that the 32-year-old who joined Santos was now “imminent”.

Neymar played in the Santos youth team and the senior team before joining Barcelona in 2013. “Neymar’s return to Santos now imminent as a verbal agreement was concluded. Official steps to follow next week for the final formula of the Al Hilal agreement and the contracts to be checked. Neymar has already said yes to the move … Let’s go, soon, “wrote Romano on X.

Neymar only played seven games for al-Hilal

The former striker of Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain, 32, has only played seven times since he joined the club in August 2023, despite a salary reported of around $ 104 million per year.

Neymar, the subject of what is still the biggest transfer in football history when he joined Paris Saint-Germain in Barcelona in 2017 for fees of 220 million euros ($ 230 million in), joined Al-Hilal in August 2023.

He followed his other superstars Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema at the Lucrative Saudi League.

But two months after his arrival in Riyadh, he broke a crossed ligament in his left knee while playing for Brazil during a qualifier of the World Cup in October 2023, which kept him on the sidelines during a year.

He returned to Al Hilal with two brief appearances in October and November, but injured the hamstrings and has not played since. He said he was targeting the World Cup.

Club coach Jorge Jesus said recently: “He can no longer play at the level we are used to. Things have become difficult for him, unfortunately. “”

Earlier in January, Neymar said he was aimed at playing in 2026 in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Neymar wants the “last blow” during the World Cup

“I know it will be my last World Cup, my last blow, my last chance and I will do everything I can to play it,” he told CNN.

A return to Brazil would probably be the last chance for a player who is the top scorer of all time in his country with 79 goals in 127 games.

At the start of his career, he was interpreted as heir to Pelé.

After having scored 107 goals in 177 appearances for Santos, he joined Barcelona in 2013, becoming the young star of a team who also presented Messi and Luis Suarez, who pushed the Champions League title in 2015 by defeating Juventus 3-1 in the final in the final in the final in the final in the final in the final in the final in the final in the final in the final in the final in the final in the final in the final in the final in the final in the final in the final in the final in the final in the final in the final in the final in the final in the final in the final in the final in final in Berlin.

A year later, he marked the winning penalty during a shooting while Brazil won the golden football gold medal at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

In 2017, Paris Saint-Germain belonging to Qatar removed it from Barcelona with what is still world record transfer costs of 220 million euros ($ 230 million).

He won five Ligue 1 titles and him and prolific French striker Kylian Mbappe led PSG to the Champions League final in the 2019-2020 at Covid’s flight, but they lost against Bayern Munich.

PSG gathered Neymar with Messi in the French capital, but the trio with Mbappe failed to froze while personal rivalries were being kept on the way and that he was pushed to the exit and to Arabia Saudite, by the Parisian management in 2023.

With agency entries