AC Milan striker, Stephan El Shaarawy, believes that Neymar is the best player in the world right now

Neymar completed a €57million move to Barça from Santos during the summer.

Lionel Messi, Neymar's new team-mate, is the bookmakers' favourite to win this year's the Ballon d'Or, ahead of the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Franck Ribery, but El Shaarawy believes that Neymar deserves to win the FIFA award.

"I would say that Neymar is the best player in the world at the moment. I played against him in Geneva with Italy in March and he was simply incredible on the ball", he told the reporters.

Neymar was linked with a number of clubs earlier this year and Sandro Rosell, FC Barcelona’s president, revealed this week that Real Madrid tried to convince the young soccer star to move to the Bernabeu until a contract at Camp Nou was signed.

"When we reached to an initial agreement with Neymar's father, the player had already passed a medical with Madrid, so we joked we would not bother with our own check-up," Rosell told to TV3. 

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