PSG: the figures of Neymar's first contract in Paris revealed by the Spanish press

It's starting to become a specialty.

Only a few weeks after revealing the astronomical figures of Leo Messi's last contract with FC Barcelona, ​​the very serious Spanish daily

put the cover back on Saturday by disclosing the details of Neymar's with Paris Saint-Germain.

By including the release clause paid by the Parisian club to its Catalan counterpart (222 million euros), five years of salary billed at 43,334,400 euros gross per unit and a sixth optional accompanied by a nice salary increase, the total cost of this contract for PSG therefore amounts to 489,228,117 euros, including 267 for the sole remuneration of the player over the six years of the contract.

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"The contract that has dynamited the economic balance of football", as

affectionately calls

it - it is the transfer of Neymar to PSG which notably triggered, in cascade, the transfers of Coutinho (160M €) and Dembélé ( 145M €) at FC Barcelona, ​​as well as the extension of Messi for more than 70M € of annual salary - therefore consists of three documents of 19 pages whose figures make you dizzy.

In detail, the Spanish daily reveals supporting documents that PSG committed to pay Neymar, who benefited from impatriate status and therefore a 50% tax relief, 3,096,520 euros gross per month , or 2,125,000 euros net. PSG would also have committed, in writing, that Neymar will never receive less than 30 million euros per year. In this figure, the PSG includes a bonus, "in the event that the player fulfills a series of symbolic requirements" specifies the newspaper, of 541,680 euros gross per month, and which cannot fall below 375,000 euros.

The contract signed by Neymar in August 2017 ran until June 30, 2022, or five seasons. But he provided for an automatic extension of one season, accompanied by a nice salary increase, as a reward for the player's loyalty: his gross salary would have increased to 50,556,117 euros gross over the last year. The Brazilian having extended his contract with Paris last May, this option was never activated, but

specifies that the new contract was signed "with few changes in the amounts, apart from the tax adjustments and those caused by the Covid pandemic".

Neymar's current contract in Paris would thus be more or less the same, in terms of income, as that signed by his friend Leo Messi, whom he faces on Sunday evening in the field with Brazil in early August.

And this while PSG still hopes to convince Kylian Mbappé to join the two men at the top of the salary grid.

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Among the other details revealed by

, it should be noted in particular that Neymar is contractually obliged by the club to “fully confirm its French tax obligations, both with regard to its tax declarations and the payment of taxes of any kind, qu 'they may or may not be linked to the remuneration paid by the club ”. A detail in the sea of ​​dizzying figures contained in these revelations, but which it is not necessarily unnecessary to underline.