Neymar yes chatted this summer with Manchester United about a transfer

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Barcelona star Neymar shed some light on Friday on rumors that surfaced last month speculating that Manchester United had made a move to sign him: They’re true.
“We had conversations,” the 23-year-old Brazilian admitted, referring to when United’s vice-chairman Ed Woodward flew to Spain in August.
While many thought Woodward’s sole purpose was to wrap up a deal with Pedro, Neymar’s former Barcelona teammate, Neymar told Brazilian ESPN (via the Guardian) that Woodward was there also to lure him to the Premier League.
Luckily for Barcelona, however, the talks didn’t go very far.
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“There was nothing concrete,” Neymar continued. “I heard that there were offers but none were made to me.”
Part of the reason for no concrete offer might have been because of the expense. Neymar would’ve commanded €190 million ($218 million), which would have shattered world transfer fee records. The star also might have brought with him a few legal issues.
The alleged transfer fee of $107.5 million that Barcelona is said to have paid Brazil’s Santos FC to acquire him in 2013 is at the center of court cases in both Spain and Brazil. Both have to do with tax evasion.
On Friday, the Brazilian courts froze $50 million of Neymar’s assets in connection to the case, the Associated Press’s Rob Harris reports.
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Meanwhile, in Spain, Barca President Josep Bartomeu and his predecessor Sandro Rossel have been ordered to stand trial over discrepancies in what a judge says was the amount of the actual fee and what the team reported to the government. Barcelona, Neymar and other third parties involved have maintained their innocence.