Shortly after netting a brace in his home derby for French Ligue I club, Paris Saint Germain (PSG), world record football signing, Neymar has taken a swipe at his former bosses at Barcelona.

Neymar said the people in charge of football at the Catalan giants are not the ones who should be there for the direction of the team, adding that the current crop of players at the club deserved more.

The 25-year-old Brazilian who was in scintillating form in Sunday’s 6-2 demolition of Toulouse said: “I want to speak the truth, I’m very sad with them. I spent four years there and I was very happy. At the start, I was happy. I spent four beautiful years there and I parted happy. But with them (the club’s directors), no.

“For me they are not the people who should be there, for the direction of Barca. Barca deserve much better and the whole world knows it,” Neymar added.

Despite the record €222 million ($26 1million) made by the team from Neymar’s sale and the return of Gerard Deulofen, Barcelona have been struggling to find a replacement for him as bids in excess of €100 million for Liverpool’s Phillippe Coutinho and Borussia Dortmund’s Ousmane Dembele have been turned down by their respective clubs.