Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have dominated the Ballon d'Or awards in recent times and any team would jump at the opportunity to sign one or the other. But Schweinsteiger would prefer to see Brazil and Barcelona star Neymar join the Bundesliga giants. Neymar, 25, has scored 15 goals and assisted 24 in all competitions this season as well as scoring the winning penalty as Brazil won gold in last summer's Olympics in Rio. And Schweinsteiger has revealed why he believes Neymar would make the perfect fit at his former club.

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"That’s difficult, but if you ask me which kind of player I would like to see in the Bayern Munich jersey then I would probably say I would like to see Neymar in a Bayern Munich jersey," Schweinsteiger told Goal. "But I don’t know if he wants to. "Actually, I’m also quite a fan of Neymar. Not only about his game style, but also his personality. "(The connection) actually came from (former Bayern Munich defender) Dante. He was playing with him in the Selecao, and he wanted to have a shirt of mine so I gave Dante a shirt of mine for Neymar. "Every time when we played against each other there was a lot of respect.

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