Paris Saint-Germain are reportedly willing to shell out a world-record transfer fee for Barcelona’s Neymar.
The Brazilian, who has been at Barca since 2013, is said to have had a €222m (nearly £200m) buyout clause inserted into his most recent contract with the club – a fee PSG are said to be willing to meet in order to bring him to the French capital.
Reports that the dethroned Ligue 1 champions would be willing to part with such an enormous amount of the Qatari royal family’s hard-earned cash have come from Marca, who claim such a move will be made if they get an indication from the player that he’d be willing to leave Spain.
The Marca story followed an article in Sport – the imaginatively named Barcelona-based sports newspaper – which claimed that Neymar felt his progress at Barca was being hampered by Lionel Messi.
Perhaps significantly (perhaps not), the news comes just weeks after Messi agreed a contract extension at the Camp Nou.
If such a move does happen, Marca add that PSG would be willing to pay the 25-year-old €30m (£26.6m) annually. Unsurprisingly, both Manchester clubs are also said to have had an interest in the player, although the enormous transfer fee is thought to have been too much, even for them.
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