Former Manchester United defender Gary Neville says a signing like Neymar at Newcastle would scare him to death. The Magpies are the richest club in world football, but they've been unable to spend their riches given the constraints of Financial Fair Play.
The arrival of a global superstar like Neymar is somewhat unrealistic at the current stage of the Magpies' rebuild, but at some point in the future that's expected to change. The Brazilian's future at PSG is in doubt and the sensational links to Newcastle come off the back of Les Parisens' supporters chanting outside of his house telling him to leave the club..
Neville has advised the Toon hierarchy to avoid signing Neymar this summer, but admits a time will come where Eddie Howe has to roll the dice. He said on the Gary Neville podcast: "That would scare me to death, that sort of signing.
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"Neymar is a sensational player but I think Eddie Howe all of a sudden would sort of have a circus - Eddie Howe doesn't need a circus up here. You think about what Newcastle are at this moment in time, they're building, they've got foundations.
"What you don't want to do is basically go and disrupt that. Fans are really behind the team they're behind the manager, there's a sort of a spirit building.
"They're going to need to do it at some point, go for those big name signings, and they're going to need to make that jump and Eddie's going to need to be brave at a point and say 'yeah let's go for it'.
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