Ex-Barcelona superstar Neymar reportedly asked his former Camp Nou team-mates if they would willingly take him back on an impromptu recent visit to the Catalan club.
According to Sport, Neymar arrived with his young son, Davi Lucca, and was his usual smiling self around his old colleagues and friends.
It was then that he apparently asked, 'Would you take me back?', a joke as part of the banter.
Emotions are still raw in Catalunya over the controversial €222m deal that ripped the Brazilian away against the wishes of Barcelona.
The local media, seemingly as bitter as the club, have pushed an agenda that Neymar is unhappy in France and already regrets turning his back on Barça.