FC Barcelona basketball team announced this Thursday the termination of Raul Neto’s contract just one month and one week after his signing for the Barça team. The Brazilian point guard arrived at the end of November to replace Nicolás Laprovittola’s long-term injury, but two muscle injuries have hampered his short career in Joan Peñarroya’s team in which he has only played two games with seven minutes on the court. “Raul Neto will not continue to be a Barça player. The Club and the player have reached a mutual agreement to end their contractual relationship, which ended on June 30, 2025. This event occurred after the Brazilian international’s misfortune with injuries. On December 27, in the match against Red Star, he suffered an injury to the hamstring muscles of his left thigh, with a twelve-week recovery process,” the Barça team reported in a statement. Barça once again only has two guards in its ranks at a very delicate moment in the season: Satoransky and Juan Núñez.
Neto, who already has a good career behind him after passing through great NBA teams such as the Utah Jazz, Washington Wizards, Philadelphia 76ers and Cleveland Cavaliers, has not gelled on Peñarroya’s team. First he was injured in his debut against Real Madrid in the Euroleague in the adductor, a game in which he scored five points; and the second against Red Star, adding only seven minutes in two games.
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The Club and the player have mutually agreed to end the contractual relationship after the Brazilian’s second injury. pic.twitter.com/7yYlcatHS8
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The Barça coach assured this Thursday in the press conference prior to the Euroleague match against Paris (Friday 20.15, Movistar+) the need to “incorporate a player to breathe life into the team” after the announcement of the termination of the Brazilian point guard’s contract. . “For us, this situation we have experienced is a disaster,” said the coach. And he has described Neto’s two muscle injuries in less than a month as “bad luck.” He has also confirmed the club’s intention to move in the market to “incorporate a player with similar characteristics to Laprovittola.”
Despite the classification in Europe, we are currently eleventh and out of the positions that give access to play the play inPeñarroya has stated that the team is “calm” and has stressed that “there is a lot of competition left.” This Friday’s match will be the second time that both teams meet after the Blaugrana fell in Palau 87-103 on matchday 10 of the Euroleague.
