The Brazil forward is racing to be back from injury for the Club World Cup final — but had things been different, he could have won it with Los Blancos last year.
It seems unthinkable now. Long before Neymar moved to Barcelona in 2013, he spent time on trial at Real Madrid as a 13-year-old. The Brazilian forward's future was always destined to be in Spain, but his destination back then looked like the Santiago Bernabeu.
Neymar was a talented teenager at Santos when his idol Robinho moved to Madrid from the Brazilian club in 2005.