Jose Mourinho has dismissed a transfer for Neymar as absurd.

Neymar has been linked in the media to a transfer from Barcelona to Manchester United.

Neymar signed an improved contract with Barcelona in October that raised his buyout clause to €200 million in Year 1 before escalating.

"It's speculation. I always try to be objective and pragmatic with clubs and to ask them what they can give me. To ask for Neymar is absurd," Mourinho said.

"A club like Barcelona can not and will not lose Neymar. Although Messi is still a young player with years ahead of him, he's almost 30, and Neymar will be the great player of Barcelona post-Messi. So much that I think it [trying to sign Neymar] is like trying to break into a safe, impossible."