Neymar warns ex-Liverpool star to stop ‘talking sh*t’ about him

Robin Bairner

18 Apr 2022 22:25 BST
3 min read

Neymar has fired an angry response to former Liverpool player Fabio Aurelio, who made comments over the direction the Paris Saint-Germain star’s career has taken.

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Neymar has struggled for form at PSG this season but has started to find his level in recent weeks, scoring six goals in his last three games – more than he had managed in the whole of the campaign before then.

However, he has generally come in for criticism during his time in Ligue 1 due to his lifestyle choices and his tendency to be injured at key times of the season.

Nevertheless, he is a Champions League winner with his time at Barcelona and has won a myriad of trophies while with PSG.

That was not enough to stop him avoiding criticism from Aurelio, who he fired back at in an angry fashion.

“I’m tired of these ex-players who are there and only open their mouths to talk sh*t. A five-minute interview and all he did was talk about other people’s lives. If you want to criticise, criticise. But talking sh*t like that is not possible,” he said via an Instagram post.

Aurelio brands Neymar an underachiever

Previously, Aurelio had joined the queue of critics to suggest that Neymar had failed to maximise his potential.

“I always say that I would be very disappointed if I was him. The ambitions he has, and for the quality and talent he has, the fact that he has never won a Ballon d’Or feels wrong,” Aurelio, who played for Valencia and Liverpool, told Goal.

“He has all the conditions to do it, but I don’t know what has happened. Maybe some things are more important to him than the game, I don’t know? You see [Cristiano] Ronaldo, [Lionel] Messi, they were there at the top level for 10 or 15 years.

“You never heard about problems away from the pitch, but Neymar is always involved in things like this. He needs to stay away from those things, because he is capable of amazing things.

“Maybe now, the age he is, if you don’t look after yourself, it can come back and haunt you. He is still Neymar, and capable of doing things that you don’t expect, but you see now he is not as fit as he used to be. He’s a top player, but he could do more.”