Futbol America: Neymar's Headed Home?

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🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Cristina Alexander, Herculez Gomez, and Shaka Hislop are joined by ESPN's Gustavo Hofman to discuss Neymar being close to returning to his boyhood club, Santos, in Brazil. Then, the crew reacts to reports that the Saudi Pro League and PIF are still interested in Vinicius Junior and what's the likelihood of the Brazilian moving to Saudi Arabia. Plus, a breakdown of the USMNT's performance against Venezuela with the debuts of Matko Miljevic and Patrick Agyemang. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Happy Monday to you all and welcome to Football America's Shaka His Lop, Perkins-Gomis.
0:15.0	I'm Christina Alexander. It was like only a few days ago where we thought Namar could possibly land in MLS.
0:21.6	Yeah, yeah.
0:22.6	My, how things have changed since sometime.
0:25.6	Like, Thursday.
0:27.6	Since Thursday.
0:29.6	Well, here's the latest now with Neymar.
0:32.6	Let's dive right into it because now reports are saying that he is close to returning home to Santos.
0:40.9	The striker said to leave Al-Hila, as we know, after his coach, Jorge Jesus said, quote,
0:45.6	he can no longer play at the level we are used to.
0:48.4	No surprise there.
0:49.2	He won't be registered to play the second half of the season.
0:51.6	It's close to returning to Santos in Brazil.
0:53.7	And Santos CEO Pedro Martins said the club is quote, monitoring Namar's situation to see how he will resolve his case with his current club.
1:03.0	I mean, he only signed with this club 18 months ago. He can participate.
1:07.7	Of course, in the Champions League version of what we see in his league at the moment.
1:13.5	Gustavo Hoffman joins us now from Madrid.
1:16.9	Gustavo, I'm going to start with you.
1:18.8	What do you think of this news, of the possibility of seeing Neymar, go back to Brazil?
1:24.2	Christina Erklis Chaka, good evening.
1:26.4	Well, it's hard to imagine that, No, Neymar is still a very talented player. He's 32 years old. He's going to be 33 next month. He could be playing the highest level of international foot. But we haven't seen this Neymar for a long, long time.
1:45.0	We have to remember that Neymar doesn't play a full match, a full high-level match,
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