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Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are bigger than Neymar: Javier Tebas

Javier Tebas would be more worried if Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo left La Liga than the wantaway Neymar.

Madrid, July 31: Barcelona megastar Lionel Messi and Real Madrid heartthrob Cristiano Ronaldo would be bigger losses to La Liga than Paris Saint-Germain target Neymar, according to the La Liga president Javier Tebas.

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PSG are reportedly ready to meet Neymar's €222 million release clause to purchase him from Barcelona, but Tebas suggested that breaking the world transfer record in such extravagant fashion would surely flout Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules.

Lionel Messi (left) and Cristiano Ronaldo (Image Courtesy: twitter)


Neymar featured with Messi against Ronaldo's Madrid in a 3-2 International Champions Cup win for Barcelona in Miami on Saturday (July 29), and Tebas played down the potential departure of the 25-year-old Brazil international from Camp Nou.

"La Liga and Barcelona are bigger than Neymar," Tebas said to 'Mundo Deportivo'.

"I would be more worried if Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi left."

Tebas said PSG will be reported over potential FFP breaches regardless of whether or not Neymar's proposed move to the Ligue 1 side happens.

"Even if they don't pay the release clause [of Neymar] we will report them," Tebas said.

"They cannot make up some commercial numbers that are bigger than Barcelona or Real Madrid."

"Nobody believes that, which means that the state of Qatar is injecting money [into the club] and that violates Financial Fair Play."

"We will report it because it violates the rules of UEFA's financial fair play and the competition rules of the European Union."

"If UEFA ignore it, we will take it to Swiss competition courts and in Brussels - and we do not rule out the courts of France and Spain itself."

Neymar's proposed transfer to PSG has been the hot topic this summer and a major reason behind that is that the Brazilian superstar wants to get out of Messi's shadow and make his own name big in Europe and such comments from La Liga president will not be welcomed by Neymar.

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Story first published: Thursday, August 3, 2017, 8:06 [IST]
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