Paris Saint-Germain star Neymar has included Gigi Buffon and Thiago Motta in his all-time PSG XI, with many other Serie A stars featured too.

The Brazilian star has picked his PSG All Time XI in a video shot this past June to mark the club’s 50^th anniversary.

Neymar chose Gigi Buffon in goal, even if the 2006 Italy World Cup winner has only spent one season in Paris.

The Juventus goalkeeper played 25 games with the French club in the 2018-19 campaign, winning a League 1 title and a French Super Cup.

Cagliari forward Joao Pedro has scored 15 goals for the Rossoblu in 2020 and is the most efficient Brazilian in the five leading European Leagues.

From January this year, there are no Brazilians who have fared better than the Casteddu striker, with four goals down to the next player on the list.

Matheus Cunha from Hertha Berlin is second with 11 goals, whilst Manchester City striker Gabriel Jesus completes the podium with 10 goals.

Everton attacker Richarlison has scored nine goals in 2020, with Neymar at fifth with only eight goals at PSG.

Alessandro Florenzi’s PSG debut did not go entirely to plan, as his team lost 1-0 to Olympique Marseille in a game with five red cards, including Neymar.

The Italy international made his transfer from Roma on loan with option to buy earlier this week and was thrown straight into the starting XI on Sunday evening.

Florenzi ended up playing 84 minutes of the Ligue 1 match, which ended 1-0 for Marseille thanks to a Florian Thauvin goal.

He wasn’t the main headline, though, thanks to a chaotic and bitter affair that saw five players sent off.

While PSG announce three positive COVID-19 cases – Neymar, Leandro Paredes and Angel Di Maria – Serie B side Ascoli have a new coronavirus issue too.

As teams get back to training for the new season, they are discovering how easy it is to pick up the virus while on vacation and outside of the protective bubble provided by clubs.

Ascoli announced that Miguel De Alcantara tested positive for COVID-19 before his trip back to Italy and remains in Brazil, self-isolating until he is given the all-clear.

Despite being minutes away from elimination at the hands of Atalanta, Neymar maintains he ‘never even thought’ about that eventuality for PSG.

Atalanta were 1-0 up through a Mario Pasalic goal until the 89^th minute, but Marquinhos and Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting scored twice in stoppages to secure the 2-1 Champions League quarter-final win.

“I never even thought about elimination,” Neymar told RMC Sport.

Atalanta saw their Champions League stamped on in stoppages, as after Mario Pasalic had put them in front, PSG scored twice in injury time to knock them out of the quarter-final.

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PSG have a very different status to their Champions League quarter-final opponents, as Neymar’s salary covers the entire Atalanta squad wage bill.

The two teams go head-to-head in the opening Final Eight fixture in Lisbon on Wednesday night.

Paris Saint-Germain already travelled to Portugal to set up in their Faro base yesterday, while La Dea are due to leave Bergamo on Monday.

La Gazzetta dello Sport took a look at the finances of these clubs and found a quite extraordinary statistic.

Roma attacker Javier Pastore admitted he ‘never had the mentality’ to become the best but claimed he grew 'a lot' as a player at Paris Saint-Germain.

Pastore returned to Serie A ahead of the 2018-19 season but has only managed 30 games since signing for the Giallorossi.

Pastore made his name in Europe at Palermo, where he contributed 16 goals and 16 assists in 82 games and earned a move to PSG, but he has also become known as a player who prefers to leave the grafting to others.

Former PSG teammate Vikash Dhorasoo believes Edinson Cavani ‘would be far more complementary to Romelu Lukaku than Neymar or Kylian Mbappé.’

Cavani will be a free agent this summer and Inter have emerged as the hot favourites to sign him, ahead of Atletico Madrid, Manchester United and Newcastle United.

La Gazzetta dello Sport sought out his ex-Paris Saint-Germain teammate Dhorasoo, who also has Serie A experience at Milan.