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#2 PSG and Manchester United are not Champions League favourites
Neymar is smack dab in the middle of his peak years as a player, having turned 25 in February of this year. Footballers have an extremely short spell at the top of their game, and as such cannot afford to spend their best years at a club waiting for it to catch up to their aspirations.
By no means am I suggesting that Paris St-Germain and Manchester United are not going to win the UEFA Champions League. They are outsiders at the moment, and even the addition of a once-in-a-lifetime player like Neymar Jr. isn't enough to mask glaring weaknesses both sides have in other areas of the pitch.
Real Madrid have shown that it takes a 20+ man squad filled to the brim with talent in each position to win Europe's top prize. Barcelona aren't close to that by any means, but as long as Messi and Neymar are both there, they stand a better chance of winning the highest prize in club football than either of PSG or Manchester United.
