Neymar joined PSG in August 2017 and has won two Ligue 1 titles with the French giants

It was supposed to be the move that saw Neymar step out of Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi’s shadow.

However, the Brazil forward has hit the football headlines for both the right and wrong reasons since swapping the Spanish giants for Paris St-Germain.

He’s scored 34 goals in 37 league appearances to help them to consecutive Ligue 1 titles.

But he’s also been banned for three games for lashing out at a fan after PSG’s shock French Cup final defeat, reportedly been involved in a dressing-room incident with his team-mates, and will miss his next three European matches for insulting officials.

And he’s been stripped of the Brazil captaincy just before their home Copa America.

Not even two years on from his world record 222m euros (£200m) transfer, Neymar’s spell at Parc des Princes could be nearing an end.

“I do not want to play more in PSG. I want to go back to my house, where I should never have left,” he allegedly told PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi in a text message, as reported by Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo.

So what happens now? Does he return to Barcelona? Or perhaps a move to the Premier League?

Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, journalists Tim Vickery, Miguel Delaney and Ben Haines discuss what happens next in the story of Neymar Jr.

The ‘spoiled brat’ or the ‘easy to like’ guy?

Vickery: Senior Barcelona players would be very happy to welcome Neymar back.

He gets on extremely well with Messi, [Luis] Suarez and [Gerard] Pique – the three pillars of the Barcelona side – and I think this puts quite an interesting slant on it.

I can’t think of anyone so hated as Neymar is – and I can understand that to a degree. He does come across as a spoiled brat, but I think there is another side to him.

It is striking that most of his team-mates – certainly at Barcelona and the Brazilian national team – have a real bond with him, a very strong affection for him.

Delaney: I was talking with someone who has spent a lot of time with Neymar the other day. They said, for all the perception of him, when you meet him in person, one on one, he’s actually got this natural charisma. He’s easy to like and goes out of his way to help you.

But the issue is how he’s been infantilised by his entourage, which is led by his father. That can bring out some of the worst aspects of his personality that we have seen at PSG.

Vickery: There are decisions taken within his entourage that we will never know who the actual defining voice is. But you wonder if the relationship with his father is perhaps something he needs to outgrow.

I would love to see him abandon the junior thing. He’s 27. It’s not the time for a grown man to go around calling yourself junior.