It’s official: Neymar is a Paris Saint-Germain player having completed a world record transfer from Barcelona.
After a string of tweets teasing an announcement was close, PSG finally confirmed the arrival of the Brazilian on Thursday night.
As you might have expected, their tweet soon racked up tens of thousands of retweets. It also prompted quite an interesting reply from an official AS Roma twitter account…
Before letting you watch it, a bit of background…
Already this summer, we’ve seen the Italian club’s social media team get creative with a couple of their own transfer announcements.
There was this, when Lorenzo Pellegrini secured his return to the club from Sassuolo…
🎮⚽️… 🆕🔶🔴❗️#ASRoma pic.twitter.com/mjgBrwduHV
— AS Roma (@OfficialASRoma) June 30, 2017
…An unforgettable parody of a YouTube best bits video for their unveiling of Turkish forward Cengiz Under…
https://twitter.com/Mr_CallumWright/status/886534667192729601
…And this, for Aleksander Kolarov…
⚽️🇷🇸🤡👗⚙️🔫🚘🚓🚑💥🏎🚁🗡🌪🇲🇦🐐👀❓
#ASRoma pic.twitter.com/18yhqHS1CC— AS Roma English (@ASRomaEN) July 22, 2017
Following all this, the people with the keys to their social media accounts also saw fit to gatecrash the announcement of the biggest transfer in football history in their bid to win the ‘player announcement cup’.
⚽️🇧🇷🇫🇷🤡👗⚙️🔫🚘🚓🚑💥🏎🚁🗡🌪🇲🇦🐐👀❓#Neymar #BemvindoNeymarJR pic.twitter.com/9M2Yl3Hf0z
— AS Roma English (@ASRomaEN) August 3, 2017
Honestly, we’ve no idea what the hell we’ve just watched, either.
Just give them the player announcement cup already.
