A report on Futaa claims that Barcelona's senior officials spoke with superstar player Lionel Messi, before completing the deal that will see Neymar move to the Nou Camp from Santos this summer....
The story has it that, "Barcelona president, Sandro Rosell was well aware of the possible risks involved in signing Neymar for two quite different reasons:
Interest
Firstly,
the high costs involved in the transfer deal, which only went up and
up with the growing interest shown by other clubs, and also because of
how Messi might react to having a competitor on the pitch.
Barça
has known all along that the operation was going to be very costly
and for this reason wanted to know beforehand what Messi thought about
Neymar joining the club.
Leadership
In
the wake of disputes involving other forwards, Rosell wasn't about to
start things off on a bad footing. Messi reportedly reacted very
positively to the decision and encouraged the club to go ahead and
sign the Brazilian.
However, Barcelona bigwigs sat
down with the Brazilian and explained that Messi would still be the
boss and his leadership could not be challenged."
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