Lionel Messi's last-ditch attempt to stop Neymar's transfer from Barcelona to PSG revealed
Lionel Messi is said to have made one last-ditch attempt to persuade Neymar to ignore the lure of Paris Saint-Germain and stay at Barcelona. Gerard Pique tried a simila tactic with his now infamous "se queda" ("he stays") tweet, but admitted last week that he knew even then the Brazilian would make his world record move to the French capital. "I don't feel tricked by Neymar," Pique said. "The day I said 'he stays' I knew that he was going 100 per cent." Not so for Neymar's two partners in the 'MSN' triumvirate. Messi and Luis Suarez held a secret meeting with the wantaway forward during Barca's pre-season tour to the US in a bid to make him stay, according to Sport. The night before their game against Juventus in New Jersey last month, the three South Americans met in their hotel. With reports suggesting that Neymar wanted to move to Paris in order to step out of Messi's shadow and become the wor...