Neymar set to attend French Cup final in Paris
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it would take a shock of seismic proportions for qatar-backed psg even without the still injured neymar to slip up against a team of modest players struggling to stay in frances partly amateur third division1 neymar will attend tuesdays french cup final between paris saint-germain and minnows les herbiers psg captain thiago silva said1 neymar returned to paris on friday to continue his recovery two months after undergoing surgery on a broken bone in his foot in his native brazil1 he is unlikely to play again for psg this season his focus now on being ready in time for brazils world cup bid in june and july1 silva added neymar is doing well. its clear hes making progress. hes already working in the gym1 psg are overwhelming favourites to beat third-tier strugglers les herbiers in tuesdays game at the stade de france having already won the ligue 1 title and the league cup this season1 they were knocked out of the champions league by real madrid in the last 16 shortly after neymar suffered his injury in a game against marseille1 he is fully motivated but sad that he cant train with us. he will be there to support us tomorrow at the stade de france and i think hell be happy silva told reporters at a press conference on monday ahead of the game1 psg are fresh from winning the ligue 1 title and are hoping to secure a clean sweep of the domestic trophies when they run out at the stade de france for a game that will be attended by president emmanuel macron1 revenue of almost 500 million euros 596m last year makes them the seventh-richest club in the world according to deloittes latest football money league1 that helped them splash out a world-record 222 million euros on neymar last year and commit to spending 180 million euros to buy kylian mbappe from monaco1 with average gates of around 1300 les herbiers annual budget is around two million euros and prevents them from offering more than 3000 euros a month to their players1 the figures suggest psg will easily win the french cup for the fourth year running and record 12th time overall but les herbiers are not worrying about that1 that is not how we should look at this match insisted their coach stephane masala as he spoke to the press on monday at the stade de france1 i am a young coach and i am here to learn. i hope the players are there to learn and i hope psgs great players will give us a lesson. we wont be an embarrassment even if we get hammered1