Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho claims £198m Neymar fee is good value: 'I don't think he is expensive'

  • Jose Mourinho believes £198million release clause is not too steep a price  
  • Manchester United manager thinks Neymar is one of the world's best players 
  • Portuguese said: 'I don't think he is expensive. For £200m I don't think he is'
  • He bemoaned there will be more players around £60m mark as a result  

Jose Mourinho insists the £198million fee PSG are poised to pay for Neymar is 'not expensive'.

Mourinho believes the Brazilian striker is worth the record-breaking price tag, but he did express concern the move would inflate the value of players who were not so deserving of big transfer fees.

If Neymar's €222million switch from Barcelona goes through it would be more than double the record fee - worth £89m at the time - that took Paul Pogba from Juventus to United last summer.

Jose Mourinho does not think the £198million PSG are set to spend on Neymar is expensive

Jose Mourinho does not think the £198million PSG are set to spend on Neymar is expensive

Neymar was pictured on the outskirts of Porto ahead of his proposed move to PSG

Neymar was pictured on the outskirts of Porto ahead of his proposed move to PSG

'When we paid that amount for Paul I said that it was not expensive,' Mourinho said after United's 2-1 friendly victory over Sampdoria in Dublin.


'Expensive are the ones who get into a certain level without a certain quality.

'I think that Neymar is the same (as Pogba). I don't think he is expensive. For £200m I don't think he is expensive.

Neymar is one of the world's best players and worth his price tag according to Mourinho

Neymar is one of the world's best players and worth his price tag according to Mourinho

Mourinho thought Paul Pogba wasn't expensive last summer and feels the same about Neymar

Mourinho thought Paul Pogba wasn't expensive last summer and feels the same about Neymar

'I think he is expensive (in) the fact that now you are going to have more players at £100m, you are going have more players at £80m and more players at £60m.

'And I think that's the problem.

'Neymar is one of the best players in the world, commercially he is very strong and for sure Paris Saint-Germain thought about it.

'So I think the problem is not Neymar, I think the problem is the consequences of Neymar.' 

The price of Neymar will drive up the price of inferior players, bemoaned Mourinho

The price of Neymar will drive up the price of inferior players, bemoaned Mourinho