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After receiving permission from Neymar's family to speak in public, Barcelona called a press conference. Interim president Josep Bartomeu said the transfer was costing the club 57.1m the 17.1m Santos transfer fee plus Neymar's 40m although there were a series of bonus payments worth millions more to the player and his family. Neymar would receive 500,000 per year to be a so-called ambassador for Barcelona in Brazil and his father would receive 400,000 per year to scout three young Santos players. All the payments were on top of Neymar's annual salary of more than 10m. "We can't be any more transparent," Bartomeu told reporters.

Public prosecutor Jose Perals accused Barcelona of financial engineering by drawing up as many as nine separate agreements to avoid the club paying 12m in tax. Barcelona should have withheld 25% of all payments to Neymar as income tax on non-residents, he said. Five days later, Barcelona paid 14m to the tax authorities to cover a possible shortfall plus interest.

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AGC said:

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Hala Madrid y nada mas!

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mathguy86 said:

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ESPNFC is reporting this as Neymar's representatives brought the buyout check to La Liga. Not PSG.

I'm going popcorn emoji. This is about to get ugly.

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In Spain a player must buy himself out of his contract.
This is done by depositing the amount of the buyout clause with La Liga - Spain's equivalent of the Premier League - to release the player from his contract. The league then passes the money to the selling club.
"We can confirm that the lawyers of the player have come to La Liga to deposit the clause and that it has been rejected," La Liga told BBC Spo

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gambochaman said:

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I cannot unamuse face this enough

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