3 reasons why PSG should sell Neymar this summer

#2 Look at the long-term picture, build around Mbappe

Mbappe recently netted his 100th goal for club and country while on France duty in their Euro qualifiers

From PSG's perspective, they have to look long-term. For all their shortcomings in recent seasons, they want and must keep improving - casting their minds back to how things were pre-Neymar and what they might look like without him because he has caused more harm than good.

Selling him would present them a welcome challenge: reinvesting the money wisely, addressing the club's issues and improving quality while doing so. He has a number of demands, privileges and responsibilities that place his importance above teammates which doesn't set a good precedent to them while making it easier to blame him when things fail.

If they want to keep their key players, i.e. Marco Verratti and Kylian Mbappe among others, while attracting generational players like Matthijs de Ligt in future, they need to build a team around one star and have a clear vision in mind.

The way they do that? Appeasing Mbappe's desire, especially if they are serious about his untouchable status and want him to be there for a number of years to come. Everyone has known for two years now that a move to Barca or Real is certainly on the cards and appears only a matter of time.

Kylian isn't 21 until December and already one of the world's best players, having only been in Paris for two seasons. There are murmurs he is unhappy which again, don't come as a surprise given how much they've underachieved with the squad they have - they have little to show for their quality and his speech at last month's LFP awards ceremony was a sign of things to come, a timely warning that if they don't reach their ceiling, he and other prized assets will not hesitate to depart for pastures new.

PSG have always been heralded as this lucrative, exciting project that lures talented players into joining them in negotiations. However, you can only pitch something like that as this big thing for so long: if you don't start producing results, what's the point?

People are increasingly aware this is their current situation, by far and away France's best team but that crucially doesn't translate in Europe - which just isn't good enough. It's been the same old story for more than five years now and they still have nothing to show for it, so why waste the peak years of a talented core to ultimately be stifled by Neymar? Instead, you can build around Mbappe and get further with better young players, quality, depth and less fanfare too.