He was a key player and maybe even the most important player in the KO-stages last year. He scored important goals in each and every leg except vs City.
He has proven his worth over and over. A patch of bad form aint ever gonna change that. He has scored and created tons if important goals. He brought the treble together (he even carried the team in the beginning of the season when everyone was playing sh!t) with his teammates. He is on 29 goals this season (which other players have managed to do that except Messi and Suarez?) and he was unquestionably the best player on the planet when Messi was injured. He took the biggest responsibility to lead the team and he did it excellently. And you compared him to Hazard
He was a huge part of the treble and he will be a huge part of the liga title if Barca manage to win it. He is on 83 goals already in total since he came and he has been amazing playingwise with all creating, dribbling and tracking back unlike another certain player. He is paying off his transfer sum too. Also, he coulve fetched a much bigger transfer sum and landed a higher salary if he wanted to. He had tons of clubs after him but yet he chose to come to Barcelona. Even now he has tons of clubs after him but yet he wants to stay in the 1st place so you cant question his commitment.
You cant just ask yourself if he will play 10/10 under one period and just 2/10 the following period. It isnt that black and white as you put it. You cant predict what will happen. He might have a full season of top notch performances. He might also have a season full of sh!t. You dont know that and you cant just predict and throw around random grades. Yes, he was underperforming during these last important games, but so was everyone else.
IF Barcelona would be stupid enough to sell Neymar, who would you replace him with? Who is this player that will manage to score 30+ goals a season? Who is this player that will score vs all big teams in CL KO-stage? What if this player also underperforms? You dont know if these players, that in your opinion,
COULD deliver the same (or even better LOL) performances Neymar is delivering. 1st off, there is nobody that will be able to do it simply because there is no one as good as him. Secondly this new player might not be able to adapt as good as Neymar has done. What if he becomes another Alexis?
What the club is getting from Neymar is having the best player of his generation. A player that most probably will be on top once Messi and CR7 start slowing down. They will have a player to build a team around for years to come. They will have a reliable player to place huge responsibility on (he has already shown he can take it). Once again, you cant just say he will always have 3 months of bad form. And FYI bad form happens to everyone. What he has managed to accomplish so far is not way to little at all, even considering his price tag. Remember that there were clubs willing to pay much more so Barca actually payed less than is actual value was back then.
1. Who other than Messi has been delivering months and months of 10/10 performances consistently during the years? No one.
2. Who is this winger that will bring better and more consistent performances? How would you even know that he would be consistent and even deliver similar or better performances than Neymar? How?
Your theoretical question is nothing but BS as you cant predict what will happen and if he will ALWAYS have 2 months of different levels in performance. Things arent black and white. And you dont even know how good his replacement would be but what we do know is that there is no better winger than him out there, especially in his young age.
He might become more consistent but he might also remain hot and cold. But thing is, that goes for ALL players out there. And it isnt as simple as he will have 2 months of this, 2 months of that and then 2 months of something else. He might have seasons in which he will play good for the most part. In the next one he might perform good during 70% of the season. Next one he might have a very good start, then he dips and then he might become very good again. There are lots of possibilities.
Neymar must be kept at all costs unless he makes a Ronaldinho that is.
Undoubtedly the most profound post ever submitted on this forum.
