The thing is... football has changed in Brazil. Unfortunately. Games are ugly, teams are well disposed, there's a lot of running, tight defences, no brain. Sort of Premier League football, but with less talent. The point is, defenses are not shitty anymore.
What happens is that any class class player who can dribble makes his defenders look like retarded fucks. It's the same to Messi and Ronaldo. If you only watch Neymar dribbling the whole team and scoring in youtube it will always look like shitty defending. But against this kind of player, when a play is succesfully done, every defending looks like shit.
Of course he still has to go to Europe and prove himself. But I have no doubt it will happen. I don't say this often, and honestly I'm not biased because I'm Brazilian. I truly think this kid is a genious. Let's see what happens.