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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barney Ronay

The Neymar Identity: football’s first real career commodity-player

‘The recent Neymar-doc series on Netflix was a highly effective real-time performance art piece detailing in mind-numbing detail the basic meaninglessness of Neymar’s existence.’
‘The Neymar-doc series on Netflix was a effective real-time performance art piece detailing in mind-numbing detail the meaninglessness of his existence.’ Illustration: Lo Cole/The Guardian

“We no longer want flashy, bling-bling. It’s the end of sequins.” No, not the sequins. How about diamanté? What is the official position, Nasser al-Khelaifi, president of Paris Saint-Germain, on the embroidered epaulette?

In an interview with Le Parisien this week, Khelaifi took the chance to outline his vision of a new utilitarian PSG: a PSG staffed by hungry, flat-faced hair-shirt men who look like David May with toothache.

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