Neymar and Lionel Messi didn’t hold Vitinha dear to their hearts. Since their departure, the Portuguese international has become a key player at PSG.
Vitinha is one of Luis Enrique’s key players. This contrasts with his mixed first season at Paris Saint-Germain, under Christophe Galtier, during the 2022-2023 season.
During that season, the Portuguese international had to deal with the presence of two global stars who didn’t necessarily want him well. “I heard reports that Messi and Neymar weren’t at all convinced by Vitinha’s level. This proves that you can be a very good player and still be at a loss when it comes to the level of a teammate,” he revealed on his YouTube channel “Pierrot le foot.”
Neymar and Messi were wrong about Vitinha
And the former “Canal Football Club” sniper continued: “Either you don’t know how to detect the level of your teammate that you see every day in training. Or you don’t want to detect his qualities, and that’s terrible. The fact that they left may have freed him up. He probably had to take responsibility.”
On June 30, 2022, the Santo Tirso native signed a five-year contract with PSG. The amount of his transfer, announced by FC Porto president Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, was €40 million. It would cost €15 million more today, according to Transfermarkt.
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