How will Atletico line up with him and Costa next season?
He'll join Atletico in January for a fee of 45m.
https://futbol.as.com/futbol/2017/07/10/primera/1499715829_186372.html?autoplay=1
Unconfirmed. Please don't consider AS, Marca, MD, Sport as relevant sources.
Even if Paulinho is a 'gift' to Neymar for staying at the club (which is ridiculous by the way), why wouldn't we try and sign a Brazilian midfielder that can actually be useful to Valverde? If he wants a strong box-to-box kind of midfielder, then why not go for Fabinho? He could play at RB (even though we already have Semedo now), CDM, CM and I could even see him being a CB for us.
Why would Neymar just want any random footballer as long as he is Brazilian?