Barcelona manager, Ernesto Valverde has confirmed that Neymar will not leave Barcelona after the Brazilian has been linked to PSG.
Paris St-Germain have reportedly triggered the forward’s 222m euro (£199m) release clause, although Barca president Josep Maria Bartomeu told BBC Sport the 25-year-old is not for sale.
BBC Sports reports that Neymar did not speak to reporters after the pre-season win in New Jersey, but Valverde did address the speculation.
“We want Neymar with us,” he said.
“We know his value on the pitch and what he brings to the locker room.”
Neymar, who joined from Santos in 2013 and signed a new five-year contract until 2021 in October, only played for the first half of the International Champions Cup contest.
He opened the scoring after 15 minutes following a clever exchange with Paco Alcacer and doubled the lead nine minutes later, drilling low past Gianluigi Buffon after burrowing through the Juve defence.
Giorgio Chiellini scored a consolation for the beaten Champions League finalists just after the hour in front of a sell-out 82,104 crowd at the MetLife Stadium.
It will be pretty unfortunate for Neymar Jr to leave FC Barcelona for PSG simply because he wants to win the Balloon d’ or . PSG are a small team compared with Barca where he is already a marked candidate for the title. It is just a matter of time. Those clamouring that he should leave Barca do not mean good for the superstar.
Except he is being swayed by the monetary value of the contract or the willingness to be the king in a small club like Paris Saints Germain. We, his diehard fans are expecting him to be patient and keep on demonstrating his soccer wizardry while his day of personal glory will arrive soonest.