The Neymar Effect : A fantasy future based on the world’s record transfer fee

Neymar posing with in his new PSG kit at the Parc de Princes. Photo: Aurelien Meunier/Getty Images Europe

Neymar’s world record transfer is sure to have a ripple effect on football for years to come.

However, if one were to speculate and build a fantasy world, what domino effect would this transfer really have on Europe’s top leagues?

For a select number of clubs, we can only imagine….

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The Transfer Window

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Changing Times : Antonio Conte

Antonio Conte is the man behind Juventus’s resurgence

Like the proverbial Phoenix, Juventus has risen from the Calciopoli ashes. Hardest hit by the Italian football scandal that revealed itself in 2006, the club has withered the storm of demotion and humiliation to become Italy’s finest football club once more.

Much of this has to do with Antonio Conte.

The former Juventus midfielder returned in the

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It was not that Manchester United played badly. It just was that Real Madrid played better.

Tactically, they proved superior. Technically, they were supreme. Every Madrid player caressed the ball with subtlety – as if it was a crown jewel and passed it around intelligently, seemingly fearful of losing a precious possession.

All this was summarised by the third Madrid goal. Fernando Redondo running down the touchline then,

Juventus invincible no more

Juventus players dejected after defeat to Inter *** image courtesy of fu6bol ***

The screaming headline on the front page of Turin based newspaper, Tuttosport, summed it all up.

Juve INTERrotta ,

Which translates to,- Juve INTERrupted.

For that is exactly what happened on Saturday in Italy’s Serie A. For the first time since Antonio Conte took charge of Juventus. For the first time since Juve became the first, and still, only club in Italy to own its own stadium. For the first time in 50 Serie A matches, Juventus had to endure the bitter taste of defeat.

And there was no club more appropriate in Italy  to inflict it upon them.

Despite not coming from the same city, Juventus FC vs FC Internazionale is one of Italy’s fiercest rivalry. This rivalry divides a nation, sets hate among two families, and even once caused Parliament proceedings to be stopped, the bickering and shouting occasioned by a debate concerning a Juve-Inter match causing the Deputy Prime Minister to