{"id":29963,"date":"2025-01-08T14:53:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T14:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/08\/neymar-playing-with-messi-and-suarez-in-miami-is-a-fascinating-idea-but-is-it-a-good-one\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T14:53:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T14:53:44","slug":"neymar-playing-with-messi-and-suarez-in-miami-is-a-fascinating-idea-but-is-it-a-good-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/08\/neymar-playing-with-messi-and-suarez-in-miami-is-a-fascinating-idea-but-is-it-a-good-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Neymar playing with Messi and Su\u00e1rez in Miami is a fascinating idea. But is it a good one?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Barcelona teammates getting together for one last hurrah in MLS would draw in the fans. But injuries have taken their toll on the Brazilian<\/p>\n<p>Lionel Messi\u2019s Florida sanctuary for former Barcelona players could soon have another resident. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/jan\/07\/neymar-hints-at-incredible-reunion-with-messi-and-suarez-at-inter-miami\">Comments made by Neymar<\/a> on Tuesday hinted at a possible reunion with his former Bar\u00e7a teammates, Messi and Luis Su\u00e1rez, at Inter Miami seven years after the trio formed arguably the most formidable forward line in soccer history. The prospect of the \u2018MSN\u2019 reunited in MLS is tantalising.<\/p>\n<p>But just because the signing of Neymar is a compelling idea, that doesn\u2019t make it a good one. Neymar is a shadow of the player who scored 105 goals in 186 games for Bar\u00e7a. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2024\/nov\/18\/neymar-still-saudi-pro-league-invisible-man-after-latest-setback-al-hilal-brazil\">Injuries have taken their toll<\/a> on the 32-year-old, sidelining him for much of the last year. He has only played seven games for Al-Hilal since joining the Saudi Arabian club in August 2023. There may not be much soccer left in him.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/jan\/08\/neymar-lionel-messi-luis-suarez-inter-miami-mls\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Barcelona teammates getting together for one last hurrah in MLS would draw in the fans. But injuries have taken their toll on the Brazilian Lionel Messi\u2019s Florida sanctuary for former Barcelona players could soon have another resident. Comments made by Neymar on Tuesday hinted at a possible reunion with his former Bar\u00e7a teammates, &#8230; <a title=\"Neymar playing with Messi and Su\u00e1rez in Miami is a fascinating idea. But is it a good one?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/08\/neymar-playing-with-messi-and-suarez-in-miami-is-a-fascinating-idea-but-is-it-a-good-one\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Neymar playing with Messi and Su\u00e1rez in Miami is a fascinating idea. But is it a good one?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}