Barcelona Confirmed
Neymar’s Wish To Leave The Catalan Giants On Wednesday, But Insisted The Brazilian’s
222 Million Euro ($260 Million) Buyout Clause Must Be Paid As His Potential
World Record Move To Paris Saint-Germain Moved A Step Closer.
“Neymar Jr, accompanied by his
father and representative, communicated to FC Barcelona this morning his
decision to leave the club,” Barca said in a statement.
“The club have informed them that the buyout clause in his contract that from July 1 is 222 million euros must be paid in full.” Such a fee would smash the current record £89.3 million ($111 million, 105.2 million euros) Manchester United paid for Paul Pogba last year. Neymar has also been given permission to not participate in training after making a brief appearance at Barca’s training ground on Wednesday. Speculation over the 25-year-old’s future has dominated the first few weeks of new Barca boss Ernesto Valverde’s reign. Neymar arrived back in Barcelona on Tuesday from a fleeting promotional tour to China. He turned up for training at 9am local time (0700GMT) on Wednesday morning, but left less than an hour later after telling teammates “he is leaving”, a Barca spokesperson confirmed.
“The club have informed them that the buyout clause in his contract that from July 1 is 222 million euros must be paid in full.” Such a fee would smash the current record £89.3 million ($111 million, 105.2 million euros) Manchester United paid for Paul Pogba last year. Neymar has also been given permission to not participate in training after making a brief appearance at Barca’s training ground on Wednesday. Speculation over the 25-year-old’s future has dominated the first few weeks of new Barca boss Ernesto Valverde’s reign. Neymar arrived back in Barcelona on Tuesday from a fleeting promotional tour to China. He turned up for training at 9am local time (0700GMT) on Wednesday morning, but left less than an hour later after telling teammates “he is leaving”, a Barca spokesperson confirmed.
Presuming both clubs don’t come to a late agreement,
the buyout clause would have to be paid to Barcelona via Spain’s La Liga to
free the player from the contract he signed last year and runs until 2021.
However, La Liga president Javier Tebas has threatened not to accept PSG’s
money over what he perceives as a failure on the French side’s part to comply
with UEFA’s financial fair play rules (FFP). Clubs can be sanctioned by UEFA
for making a loss of more than 30 million euros over a three-year period. “We
will not accept this money from a club like PSG,” Tebas told Madrid sports
daily AS on Wednesday. “Especially when this club is infringing rules and
laws.” Barcelona have also threatened to report PSG to UEFA over any potential
breach of FFP. PSG have already been fined and saw their Champions League squad
limited by UEFA for breaches of FFP in 2014. – Champions League dream – Winning
the Champions League for a first time is the dream driving PSG’s owners Oryx
Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) to fund a deal that could herald the start of a new
era at the elite level of European football. Since QSI’s takeover in 2011, PSG
have failed to make it beyond the quarter-final stage in recent seasons – most
notably blowing a 4-0 first leg lead to lose 6-1 to a Neymar-inspired Barcelona
in the last 16 of last season’s competition in March.
Prising Neymar from the
grip of Barca would truly announce PSG’s presence as a contender for the likes
of Barca, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich to fear. Neymar has formed one of the
deadliest strike partnerships in football history with five-time World Player
of the Year Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez over the past three seasons. Together
they have won two La Liga titles, a Champions League and three Spanish Cups,
whilst Neymar has scored 105 goals and provided 80 assists in just 186 games.
Yet, one justification for Neymar to jump ship on top of the reported offer to
triple his salary to 30 million euros net a season, is a desire to move out of
Messi’s shadow if he is to end the Argentine and Cristiano Ronaldo’s decade-long
dominance to win the Ballon d’Or. Neymar’s four-year spell in Spain has also
been overshadowed by the murky transfer deal which brought him to Barcelona
from Santos in 2013.
He and his parents as well as Barca president Josep Maria
Bartomeu face charges of fraud and corruption in an ongoing case brought by
DIS, a Brazilian investment company. DIS owned 40 percent of the players’
rights at the time of the deal and believe they were deliberately cheated out
of their real share due to the complex structure of the transfer.
SOURCE:http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/08/barcelona-confirm-neymar-wants-leave-260m-buyout-clause-must-paid/
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