Jorge Jesus advises Neymar: “You need to change your chip”

With only details left to be announced as Al-Hilal’s reinforcement for the next two seasons, Neymar will have Jorge Jesus as a coach. Known in Brazil for what he did for Flamengo in 2019, the Portuguese coach will command the Brazilian star for the first time, but he has already given his opinion on the player in the past.

In an interview for SportTV in 2019, Jorge Jesus evaluated Neymar’s performance in European football by choosing who was the best football player on the planet at the time.

At that time, the current coach of Al-Hilal was direct when commenting that Cristiano Ronaldo was the best, mainly due to the Portuguese star’s position in the sport, and highlighted what Neymar needed to do to place himself at the top of the sport.

“Neymar could certainly (be one of the best of all time), but he is not and, if he continues like this, he will not be (on the list). He needs to change his chip to be a legend. Looking at the passion and pleasure for the game and the passion and pleasure for things outside the game and understand which is the most important of them”, explained Jorge Jesus.

In addition to being commanded by Jorge Jesus, Neymar will be joined by other Brazilians in Saudi Arabia. Michael, ex-Flamengo and Goiás, has been at Al-Hilal since the beginning of 2022 and striker Malcom, ex-Corinthians, was bought in this transfer window by the Saudi club for 60 million euros, the biggest signing in the country to date. the arrival of the number 10 shirt of the Brazilian team.

Al-Hilal is, by far, the Saudi Arabian team that spent the most in the European summer window. Until the arrival of Neymar, the club had already spent around 190 million euros, more than R$ 1 billion, to hire Rúben Neves, Milinkovic-Savic, Koulibaly and Malcom. Despite not being officially announced, the international press reports that Neymar’s arrival costs around 100 million euros, the equivalent of R$ 542 million, and would be the highest amount ever paid by an athlete for a club outside Europe.

The arrival of the Brazilian star to Al-Hilal will mean that three of the four biggest teams in the Saud Pro League will have at least one star in world football. In addition to Neymar at Al-Hilal, Cristiano Ronaldo, who was the first to arrive in the country, is the number 7 and captain of Al-Nassr and Benzema is the great reference of Al-Ittihad.