The drama of Neymar's 24 injuries: 222 million, 426 fouls in France and 741 KO days

Real Madrid

in 2018,

in 2019,

in 2021,

in 2022,

in 2023...

has played 18 knockout games in the

,

with tonight's, since the 2017 season -2018, and

, his star, his number 10, the most expensive footballer in the world for whom they paid

six summers ago, he has lost six of them and several more have arrived between cottons.

It is the great drama of the Brazilian, who will go through the operating room again to try to solve the problems he suffers in the

.

An operation that will take him away from any football activity for three or four months.

That is to say, he will not step on the grass officially until the start of the next season.

Neymar's life in Paris is not understood without looking at his ankle.

Those of his rivals and those of himself.

A dribbler par excellence, the defenses of the French league have not stopped crashing into his feet while trying to steal the ball.

In short:

.

According to

, since he landed in Ligue 1, Neymar has suffered

, more than anyone.

Not even in the last two seasons, in which he has shared attack with

, the rivals have forgotten him.

While the French and the Argentine have suffered

fouls per match, the Brazilian has continued to exceed 3 per matchday.

An outrage that his ankles have not supported.

His sister's birthday and injuries

approaches

, March 11, when the Champions League usually hosts its round of 16.

Whether it's for the family celebration or not, the reality is that the Brazilian

since he arrived in Paris.

One of six.

In 2018, a

left him out of the return against Madrid, in which his team fell.

to the same foot again

and did not make it to the match against United, where PSG lost again.

That summer, a

kept him from the Copa América, and only in 2020, through a pandemic, was he able to reach 100%.

That year, with that Final Eight in Lisbon, he led the French to the first final in their history.

He played his best football, the one that should elevate him as the heir to the

.

But in

, a

injury after an entry into the French championship left him out of the round of 16 against Barça, those that PSG beat after Mbappé's hat-trick at the Camp Nou.

He returned for the quarterfinals against Bayern, he shone and his team ended up falling in the semifinals against City.

In November 2021, an

, in this case the

and again after a challenge in France, made him reach the limit of the round of 16 against Madrid.

He was a substitute in the first leg and started the second leg, but he lacked pace and the Whites came back.

This season, always focused on the

, he left in the months before the tournament.

He accumulated 8 goals and 6 assists in the first 7 days of Ligue 1 and reached the World Cup at 100%, until fate, and the Serbian defenders, got in his

and caused him another

.

to him since 2017. The never-ending drama.

Some problems that he dragged on the return of the club competition and that now, with his team in need after the defeat in the first leg against Bayern, force him to stop dead.

On the horizon, the decision of the Brazilian to

, when he will be

, executing the clause that allowed him to do so and the resignation of PSG, which pays him more than

.

, who has given the club to Mbappé, wants him out, and

, his coach, almost appreciates his absence to place another defender or midfielder.

He,

, will not facilitate an exit that currently does not have an easy destination.

Everyone wants his talent, no one wants his drama.

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