Shakhtar Donetsk in 2009-m to year are seriously interested in the 17-year-old Brazilian prospect Neymar.
The President of FC Shakhtar Rinat Akhmetov in interview to TV channel “Football 1” remember the failed negotiations with Santos for the transfer of Neymar, who, in 2009, the year only began his career in professional football, but was considered one of the strongest young players in the world.
“There were two players, two big talent. Between them it was hard to choose whom to buy. Mircea said, “Let’s take only Teixeira and Costa are not going to take”. In the end, we had even about it a little quarreling. I said eventually, “let’s take both.” And when we took Teixeira and Costa, adapt more quickly Costa.
Do we then had three players we have on the pencil – and there was Neymar. He was 17 years old, we made an offer to Santos: we started with 15 million Euro, came to 25. In the end, Santos gave his refusal,” – said Akhmetov.
It is not excluded that the career of Neymar in the case of moving to Ukraine did not change, because Shakhtar are already established himself as the club is able to sell any Brazilian talent at European Grand.
