Brazil forward Neymar, the world’s most expensive footballer, will not play in Paris St-Germain’s first French league match of the season after his documents failed to be lodged in time.<\/p>\n
His international transfer certificate missed a midnight deadline, so he will watch Saturday’s match against Amiens from the stands, the league said.<\/p>\n
But he will be presented to supporters before the match at Parc des Princes.<\/p>\n
Neymar, 25, joined the Ligue 1 club for a record fee of 222m euros (\u00a3200m).<\/p>\n
He will earn 45m euros (\u00a340.7m) a year.<\/p>\n
In his first public appearance as a player for the French club on Friday, Neymar said it was “sad” that people thought that his move from Barcelona had been motivated by money.<\/p>\n
“What I say to these people is they don’t know anything about my personal life. I was never motivated by money.<\/p>\n
“If I was following the money, I would be somewhere else, with other clubs in other countries. I’m really sad that people still think that way and I’m glad that PSG believe in me.”<\/p>\n
The player arrived in Paris by private jet on Friday and was greeted by PSG officials and hundreds of supporters.<\/p>\n
At the club’s shop on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es, more than 1,000 fans queued to buy a PSG shirt of their new Number 10.<\/p>\n
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Source; BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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