No one can blame Neymar's poor form but himself.
Harsh to consider selling him after a few months of (very) bad form though.
I agree, to consider selling a player after a few months of bad form
alone would be harsh. But there is more to this story than that. His attitude has been getting steadily worse in combination with his declining form, and this is what gets me worried. If he doesn't turn that around, then 190m will serve Barca better than he will in the coming years.
In my opinion, of course.
I'm not saying I want to sell him yet, but we need to see a change in him, and spesifically his attitude first and foremost. His game against Valencia was horrible both in a sporting sense and a personal one, where he kept taking the ball wanting to do everything himself constantly running into defenders. Him lashing out against Alba which he followed up by slapping a Valencia player after the game doesn't exactly paint the picture of a player who has his head in the right place.
The argument that these sort of things happen between teammates on the pitch all the time is also quite irrelevant in this situation. Of course these things happen, but one needs to look at the whole picture here with regards to Neymar. He didn't do this before, something has definitely changed these past few months. Right now he's displaying a seemingly boundless arrogant attitude towards teammates with how he acts on the field, refusing to pass, blindly running into defenders trying to do it all himself and what not. Lashing out at Alba for not passing the ball to him, which by the way was completely understandable considering how poor he was playing, just underlines the problem. Before, his arrogant attitude was more or less aimed at opponents, and his devil may care approach made him very effective in 2015. But the "charm" of this wears off really quickly once he starts playing badly
and acts out against teammates while doing it...