In an interview given to the Team, Wagner Ribeiro, the historical agent of Neymar, who accompanied him in most of his transfers even if he no longer works with him, returned to the underside of the arrival of the Brazilian star at PSG, who faces Bayern Munich in the quarter-final second leg of the Champions League this Tuesday evening at the Parc des Princes.
“In the summer of 2016, we met in Ibiza with Neymar, his father, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi and Olivier (Editor's note: Létang, the sports director of PSG until June 2017).
We met on the top floor of a hotel.
We hid, no one was able to take a picture and we talked.
Nasser made a magnificent proposition.
Neymar was earning € 11m per year at Barça.
He offered him € 26 million.
Me, I asked for 40 M €!
He replied that he was going to study the matter, that he could give it a part in the form of a hotel chain in his name - on which he would have touched a percentage -, that he was going to give him a jet. private to make his trips between Europe and Brazil, and that he would put his name on the Eiffel Tower.
it was crazy !
"
The discussions will stop there at first.
“Neymar didn't really want to go to Paris, adds Ribeiro.
He was happy at Barça.
And Neymar's father took the opportunity to negotiate with Barça to extend his son's contract.
He obtained 28 M € per year.
"Finally, Neymar signed to PSG the following season, without the help of Wagner Ribeiro, replaced by Pini Zahavi who concluded the transfer with Antero Henrique, sports director of PSG from June 2017 to June 2019." Neymar could no longer refuse, specifies the agent.
PSG paid Barça € 222m and offered him a net salary of € 36m per year.
It is impossible to refuse such an offer.
The agent concludes by stressing that no club in the world can offer the Brazilian what the Parisian club offers him.
"Only PSG can afford Neymar," he says.
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