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

Real Madrid have noticed that Barcelona has just been weakened and push to sign

Victor Wanyama was what Southampton needed

A deceiving telephone conversation would become a convincing one. Graeme Souness took the bait. In 1996, on the recommendation of George Weah, he would sign Senegalese star Ali Dia.

But George Weah was in fact “George Weah” and there was no star in Ali Dia. In training, he looked off. When given his chance, he proved just how awful he was. That spurned that famous quote from Matt Le Tissier, “He ran around the pitch like Bambi on ice; it was very embarrassing to watch.”

Southampton had been embarrassingly hoaxed.

Not now however. They have just acquired the services of