Lionel Messi gave his comments on rumors of the departure of Neymar to Real Madrid, which recently more and more heard.
Neymar is reportedly unhappy at Paris Saint Germain, and for the past few months he has not been seen in Paris for recovering. But this week he finally returned to the French capital, to celebrate his side's title victory.
Real Madrid are believed to be ready to offer the striker back to La Liga, even the player has been rumored ready for Madrid in the summer transfer window this year.
But Messi, who played with the Brazilian for four seasons, is very hopeful that his former teammate is rejecting the offer of Real Madrid. In fact he calls Neymar transfer to Barcelona's competitors 'terrible'. "It will be terrible because how big Ney means for Barcelona," Messi said.
"He won an important title here, he won the Champions League, the Spanish league. It will be a hard blow for everyone if he goes to Madrid, "continued the Argentine national team striker.
When asked if it would be similar to the move of Luis Figo in 2000, Messi continued: "It will be a very powerful blow.
"This will make the Real Madrid team stronger than ever. I've talked to him about this, he already knows, "caps the attacker with five Ballon d'Or's.