Neymar will travel on an upcoming tour of China with Paris Saint-Germain, the club said on Tuesday, as the troubled Brazilian superstar’s future remains up in the air amid mounting signs he is unhappy at the French champions.
The 27-year-old, who has been repeatedly linked to a move to Barcelona, failed to show up to PSG’s pre-season training on July 8, with his camp maintaining he had a prior agreement to stay away. The club threatened to take “appropriate action” against the world’s most expensive player, who said he had stayed in Brazil to attend a charity five-a-side football tournament run by his foundation. Neymar, who joined PSG in 2017 for 222mn euros ($264mn at the time), rejoined the team a week later on July 15. He also didn’t help the strained relationship by controversially saying that his best football memory was beating PSG when he played for Barcelona.
Just days before rejoining PSG, he cited as his favourite football memory his role in the 2017 Barcelona team that overturned a 4-0 first-leg deficit by winning 6-1 in the second leg of their last-16 Champions League tie. He also recently posted a 10-second video of himself in a Barcelona shirt. 
It has been a troubled summer for Neymar. He missed Brazil’s triumphant Copa America campaign on home soil due to an ankle injury and was also questioned by Brazilian police over allegations he raped a woman — accusations he denies. PSG referenced the ankle injury in its statement naming the squad on Tuesday, saying that “daily physical work will continue and complete recovery and integration with the group is scheduled for training in China”. It added that x-rays of the fracture showed “completely normal progress and a very good improvement”.
PSG landed in Shenzhen, China yesterday, and will play friendlies against Inter Milan in Macau on Saturday and Sydney FC in Suzhou on July 30. 
Their first competitive match of the season will be against Rennes in Shenzhen on August 3 in the Champions Trophy, the traditional curtain-raiser to the French campaign. 

PSG sign Dutch 
wonderkid from Barca
Paris Saint-Germain have signed 16-year-old Xavi Simons on a three-year contract, the club announced on Twitter, after the Dutch wonderkid reportedly turned his back on Barcelona. “The Dutch midfielder has signed a contract lasting until June 2022,” PSG tweeted.  
Simons refused a contract worth 200,000 euros ($222,000) a year from Barcelona, a huge amount for a prospect from the club’s training centre La Masia, according to Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo. 
He also walked away from a chance to be quickly integrated into Barcelona’s youth team, the newspaper reported.
The Dutch starlet, known for his long, curly hair, had earlier announced to his 1.7mn social media followers that he was quitting Barcelona, without saying where he was heading. 
The young player, whose agent is the influential Mino Raiola — the agent of players such as Paul Pogba and Matthijs De Ligt among others — joins a club desperate for European honours after years of heartache.
Simons is expected to debut for the French champions in their youth team which plays in Youth Champions, a junior version of the Champions League.