Topic: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread - page 62. (Read 65875 times)

That is the point with not paying him a lot idea. I mean if he plays then he could be great, at this age and after this many injuries it's even doubtful that he could be great, but if he gets injured then you would be paying a ton of money for a player that would not play.

Al Hilal paying him insane amount of money just to sit at home, that makes no sense. Brazil is at least the guilty party there, he got injured during Brazil match, and not Al Hilal match, and yet Al Hilal is paying for him whereas Brazil is not helping with anything at all. We should realize that he is not even interested in football that much, he looks like he just lost all interest in his mind, one of the reasons why he accepted to go to Saudi Arabia as well.

I believe that Brazil should look for other new players and build a team around them and ignore Neymar, hell I wouldn't even call him up if he was available on the next world cup, stating injury concerns and having limited amount of players they can send. But if he really wants to, then he must work hard and stay healthy before the tournament starts, but I have a suspicion that even if he stays healthy until the world cup, which looks quite unlikely, he will probably not be that much help.

Well, I've been told that good things come to those who wait, and I'm sure that when he recovers, the "joga bonito" will return to Brazil. I remember how well they played at the beginning of the qualifiers against Colombia, but then Vnicisus came on and the team completely fell apart. In fact, Colombia won that game, Brazil tied with Venezuela and lost against the other teams. For me, something urgent needs to be done. I don't know, maybe it's looking for another coach or whatever, but it can't be that Brazil is doing so badly.

Brazil still has a chance to qualify for the 2026 World Cup, they must try without Neymar who is prone to injury, Dorival Junior can utilize other young generations to improve Brazil performance. The match will resume in September, and Dorival Junior has plenty of time to prepare the team, and forget their failure in the Copa America yesterday. There are 12 more matches ahead, so Brazil has a chance to finish in a better ranking. Argentina has the potential to finish in first place in the CONMEBOL zone, realistically Brazil has a chance to finish in 3rd or 4th place. The important thing is to qualify, because it would be a shame if they failed with a very big chance.

I haven't seen any player who is more injury-prone than Neymar.    Just like any time, he is injured once again now... He can't be a player to rely on for Brazil that's for certain. How will he contribute like this in the end?

Brazil still has great players. The thing they have lacked is teamwork. Otherwise this team has a bigger potential. Just think about it, does their current condition look reasonable to you?

Their qualifiers performance so far is just terrible.    If they keep this up they might not even qualify for the next World Cup. It'd be a big shock not to see them there. I hope they leave these bad days behind ASAP.

I agree with you. And as I said before that Ronaldo is a typical player who has a leadership soul. And one thing that is special about Ronaldo I think is his consistency and extraordinary discipline that can hardly be imitated by other players. I see no Portuguese player who has the same spirit to train as Ronaldo. It is very unfortunate when Ronaldo tries to give direction and advice to young players but they don't like it. I don't know if the rumor is true but there is a possibility that Ronaldo wants young Portuguese players like him but unfortunately they don't have the spirit like CR7.

Especially Neymar's injury alone has damaged the reputation of the Brazilian team, because the Brazil team without Neymar seems completely empty. Although Neymar has been out of the team for a long time due to injury, Al Hilal in the Saudi Pro League have also spent a long time in fear. But this time Copa America Brazilian team performed very badly and they lost with any team. So the Brazilian fans have never expected such a poor performance this season. Because Neymar's experience and his style of play must play a huge role in the team's victory.



While he has been quite shocked by this long injury layoff, it will take a lot of work to regain full fitness. Because if Neymar is on the field, the opposing team will definitely panic, and his plans are clear with his team players and he will feel free to put the ball in the net of the opposing team's goal post. Neymar is more than ready to create such an experience, so Neymar fans and Brazil fans will surely enjoy the most joyous time when he returns from injury.

It is not as if Ronaldo is being selfish in the football game, Ronaldo is just a zealous and passionate kind of player that wants to see himself to always do best, just that most people don't really understand the kind of player Christiano Ronaldo is. Because of the passion he puts in football when he is not doing his best he really feels so bad.

People should just understand that Christiano Ronaldo and Messi are two different people with different characters and different strengths. I respect Ronaldo alot whether he wins the world cup or not before he retires he is still a good player in the history of football. Ronaldo's nature and character is what makes people feels he is a selfish player

Neymar's injury saga isn't just a string of bad luck; it's the damn storyline of his career. This dude's a supernova of talent, but injuries are keeping him from going full galactic. Al Hilal's killing it in the Saudi Pro League, sure. Without Neymar', they lost a guy who creates chaos and opportunities all over the pitch

Now, the Inter Miami rumors are heating up. This is a crossroads for Neymar. Does he stick around in a league where he hasn't even made his debut due to injury, or does he jump ship to a new challenge? For any club considering Neymar, especially Inter Miami, this is a high-stakes poker game. We're talking about a guy who's as fragile as he is brilliant. Al Hilal's playing the patience game right now, but sooner or later they gotta ask themselves: is Neymar's sporadic brilliance worth the constant worry? They're pouring money into a player who spends more time in the medical room than on the pitch

Neymar's injury of last season really affected the performance of Brazilian national team because they had to play a major tournament like the Copa America without their star player and captain. The injury without doubt was a big blow to his Saudi club Al Hilal as it affected their performances and results of last season but it didn't stop them from winning the Saudi Pro League title as well as the other domestic trophies unlike the Brazilian national team that failed to win the Copa America without the presence of Neymar.  Till date, Neymar is still  believed to be one of most talented footballers of all time but series of injuries have limited the Brazilian from living to his full potentials and achieving what he was supposed to achieve as a footballer.  Hopefully, he comes back to full fitness ahead of next season season.

Injuries usually are one of the tough phase players do go through, and for Neymar, it's not been easy with him considering the reports that have been circulating in that regards, Brazil os going to suffer for a while due to his absences but not to worry it's no t such that will keep him back long enough that he's not going to be able to play for them again, hopefully he recovers and get back playing but he may become injury prone and no longer in his prime as he's been much before this time. Al-hilal are going to miss him the most and it's going to affect them in a way tho but Brazil may not have to wori much as before they will be needing him he should have recovered fully.

In other words, you are saying that a team that is able to win the European Championship is not able to ever win the World Cup? How is that possible?

And seriously, it's crazy that France hasn't won everything in the last 4 years. Their team is out of this world. Argentina is a great team, but they have had issues all the time. Losing against Saudi Arabia at the World Cup is not quite a sign of a perfectly set up team. They have fought their way back and now the question is whether Messi was lucky to be Argentinian or whether Argentina was lucky to have Messi? Or whether both should be happy for what they were entitled to.

But saying that Ronaldo couldn't win it because he for Portugal is quite ridiculous. He just didn't make it, period. To back this up, I think this should help to say that Portugal can't complain about the quality of their team.

Ronaldo is 39 now which means in 2026 as you said he will be 41 years old which is to say he can still play the world cup then but he may not win the world cup before his retirement because his country Portugal hasn't really shown any signs of winning the world cup if they are to be judged by their previous performances in the world cup. As a great player that Cristiano Ronaldo is, he is not expected to win all trophies so it does not matter if he wins the world cup or not because he has already made his name in the history book of records in his football career.

Lionel Messi is lucky in my own opinion even though he is an international superstar that has won the Ballon D'Or on record 8 times but he was really lucky because of his country Argentina, they have the potentials of winning the word cup of which they have already won it with Lionel Messi and also the Copa America so it has really been a career full of bliss for the Argentine footballer Lionel Messi, he will be 39 in 2026 world cup so hopefully he will still have the privilege to showcase his talents for his country once more.

People admitted Neymar as one of the most talented player from Brazil and before he was became an the player with injured prone i think people have seeing him as the player with skilfull and when he was playing he can entertain people with his skill but unfortunately injured has been ruin his career and since that time Neymar performance is gradually decline even when he playing at PSG Neymar is never able to in form again just like when he was showed at Barcelona

Neymar got injured on October last year when he defend Brazil National Team and almost reach to 1 year Neymar still unable to playing again and currently Neymar is still attempts to gets recover from his injured and it says the progress is very good because according to the prediction probably Neymar can joining with Al Hilal on september but Al Hilal will not rush to playing him because they don't want Neymar will return to gets injured again and because got long term injured last season Neymar only played 5 times with Al Hilal

Brazil currently in the difficult situation because we all know they only can able to occupy 6th place on league table for CONMEBOL zone i think this is not comfortable position for them considering Brazil status as the favourite and about Neymar if he can recover from his injured and performing well with Al Hilal probably Brazil manager will putting him into Brazil squad and not impossible too Neymar will playing at World Cup 2026

Any Portuguese player that did not respect Ronaldo is only being envy of Ronaldo's achievements because FIFA respects Ronaldo and a lot of young footballers are looking up to Ronaldo as their role model. That Portuguese player that thinks Ronaldo does not deserve his respect cannot be famous as Ronaldo all the days of his football career.

Portugal should be happy that they have a legend like Ronaldo who has broke so many past football legends record and created a new record for himself. Messi is also the best in Argentina since football history and he is a very simple player.

Brazil is currently having good players, but their main issue is how to manage things because recently we are watching their coaches are not able to bring stronger motivation for their players to have things well under control just because of this we have badly failure in Copa América cup Neymar is surely big name and having ability to bring things better but sadly in last one year we are having this player hit by serious injuries even few are feeling now it's time for him to give up about this game and stay away, but he is trying his best for recovery and perform strongly for his country and clubs.

Now we have just few days left in new season and things are looking positive for him to perform and try once more for having things well-balanced but there i no guaranteed he will be able to do as he needed because we have uncertainty about his fitness so just wait and watch is best hopefully we will have positive update about this in few days.

We saw Neymar missing several matches in the 2022 World Cup due to injury issues, although he worked hard to fit himself to play in important matches like the quarter-finals and scored crucial goals in those matches, although his team failed to qualify for the semi-finals due to some wrong team decisions. 
Before the end of the World Cup it was said that the 2022 World Cup was going to be the last World Cup for Neymar as he regretted never getting the respect he deserved from the people of his country and he wanted to retire. But after finishing the World Cup we didn't see the truth of it he expressed his desire to play one more World Cup tournament. The Copa America is one tournament we have seen Neymar miss due to injury issues. If he wants to play for Brazil in the 2026 World Cup, Neymar must remain injury free and perform well to get a place in the squad for the 2026 World Cup.

Cristiano Ronaldo will only be able to change the balance of a match if he decides to completely change his positioning on the field. He would have to be like a center forward, the player who scores goals... If he continues trying to play as a winger, he will probably be left behind... because even though he is in top physical shape, playing matches with much younger players makes all the difference... it is very difficult to compete.

Usually, Ronaldo won't act as a game-changing player for the team he plays for and you can see that when he plays for his national team or while he plays for Al Nassr which means Ronaldo playing in the 2026 World Cup cant help Portugal a lot and Portugal should think about another player instead f using Ronaldo in the 2026 World Cup.
While in the past World Cup Messi was the player who helped Argentina a lot to win the World Cpu title and considering his performance, there is a higher chance for Messi to play in the 2026 World Cup than Ronaldo.

You are right, no team will ever be able to maintain their best performance forever and of course there will always be setbacks or improvements in performance that cannot be predicted.
If maintaining performance is an easy thing then of course Brazil will be one of the countries that can certainly reach the final very often after several new generations are born, so far they have also experienced decline.
Likewise for France, which in the previous two competitions managed to win the World Cup and for the 2022 World Cup they failed, the same thing can happen with Argentina and they will always have their own phases.
In the future I not so sure Argentina can defend the title, now there have been many star players born from each team even though Argentina performance is unquestionable and they have also managed to win the 2024 Copa America.
Look at Spain which is now filled with young players, they are building their strength very well so that it is possible that in the 2026 World Cup they can create very competitive competition.

Even after Neymar gets back in the good form and he starts playing for both Al Hilal and Brazil teams again, because of his playing style of this player there is still the chance for Neymar to get injured and this time it can be even harder than before that's why I said before Brazil should not be up to just one player.
Now they have Vini in Brazil but even having this player can't be enough because they need better teamwork.