The Neymar case is affecting Barcelona’s dressing room. SPORT have learned from a source direct from the dressing room, various players in the squad are “completely sick” of Neymar’s ‘show’ and hope the situation is resolved as soon as possible.

Considering the squad did “everything possible” to avert the crisis, during which some members of the squad spoke with Neymar “one or more times” during the tour of the US, but after all that he has stayed silent and wormed his way towards an exit, the feeling is that “his departure is imminent” and “inevitable”.

However the source thinks that “Neymar could have made much less of a big deal over his decision and not make it into a public spectacle", which the dressing room thinks has damaged the image of the team and the club in the US. The tour was secondary behind the Neymar soap opera, despite wins over Man United, Juventus and Real Madrid.