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The president of Santos, Marcelo Teixeira, is confident that Neymar will extend his stay in the club at least until the 2026 World Cup.
The Brazilian striker made an emotional return to his childhood club last month, joining a short -term agreement until the end of the season.
After a slow start, the 33 -year -old has begun to show a reminiscence of what made it so dear during his first spell with the side. The former extreme of Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain has five contributions of goals in its last three games, since it continues to advance in full physical state after a torrid history of recent injuries.
Speculation has been abundant about the future of the Brazilian, with a possible return to Catalonia discussed, but Teixeira has insisted that Neymar could remain with the team to the World Cup next year.
“With the arrival of Neymar, we have 75,000 members,” he told ESPN. 'Today, we can measure what is related to the technical aspect, which represents the financial aspect.
'All financial objectives will increase, above what we estimate previously. If everything goes well, the trend is that this association continues and extends to the World Cup next year.
The president of Santos, Marcelo Teixeira, is confident that Neymar will extend his stay in the club at least until the 2026 World Cup
The Brazilian has been in a late improved way with five goals contributions in his last three games
The Brazilian was part of an iconic three in Barcelona with Luis Suárez and Lionel Messi
His comments arrive a day after Neymar reminded the world his immense talent by scoring directly from a corner kick in Santos's 3-0 victory in Limeira International.
The striker had already helped Tququinho Soares for the game opening goal in nine minutes when he went to the side of the field to take a corner.
While walking towards the corner flag, Neymar was attacked with boos and teasing of household supporters.
The veteran seemed to delight in his role as a villain of Pantomima and before taking the corner he put his hand in his ear before encouraging fans to boo him even stronger.
Seconds later, Neymar hit a brilliant delivery that evaded the goalkeeper before landing at the bottom of the network through the distant post.
The boo was instantly stopped and was replaced by the sound of saints fans shouting with joy.
Neymar had previously scored 136 senior goals for Santos between 2009 and 2013 before leaving Brazil to Barcelona.
He obtained 105 goals in 186 appearances for Barça, followed by 118 in 173 departures for PSG, while he has also produced 79 in 128 for Brazil internationally.
However, his 18 -month period in Al Hilal was ruined by injury problems and scored only one goal in seven games for the Saudi team.
