Half a billion euros: Superstar Neymar is incredibly expensive for PSG


Half a billion euros
Superstar Neymar is incredibly expensive for PSG

Neymar is a very good footballer, a global superstar. But the Brazilian has not yet been able to organize titles worth mentioning for his current employer, Paris St. Germain. And for that, the 29-year-old is pretty expensive. Or rather: Incredibly expensive.

Once again, it is unbelievable numbers that the Spanish newspaper “El Mundo” brought to light from the parallel universe of football: Brazilian superstar Neymar will have cost his employer Paris St. Germain around half a billion euros by 2023. Then the contract from which the specialist journal recently published details would have expired. According to this, the 29-year-old has earned 43,340,400 euros annually since moving from FC Barcelona in 2017 until 2022, in his originally last year of contract it should then be 50,556,117 euros.

Because Neymar only extended his contract to 2025 on supposedly the same terms in May, PSG will have transferred more than 350 million euros to his attacker by then. In addition to the 222 million euros for which the Parisians, who had almost unlimited funding with Qatari oil billions, drove the Brazilian away from FC Barcelona in 2017.

The return from the huge investment is manageable: Due to recurring injury problems and several bans, Neymar has only played 71 of 156 possible games in the domestic Ligue 1 so far of his Paris era: in 2020 they failed in the Lisbon final at Bayern Munich, last year the semi-final against Manchester City was over. To make matters worse, the domestic championship, which is regarded as a must, went to the Lille OSC.

“Polite, punctual, friendly”

In the crazy contract of the Brazilian, however, the horrific basic salary is not linked to sporting success. In return, you explicitly ask your own player to be different: “Polite, punctual, friendly and accessible to the fans” at PSG, he says, according to the contract, as “El Mundo” wrote. He is also prohibited from making public statements that run counter to the tactical approach taken by the Paris team. PSG want their stars to behave, no matter what. Colleague Thiago Silva got 33,000 euros to applaud the fans after games, as the French press reported in 2018.

According to “El Munod”, PSG has also contractually agreed to take responsibility for all eventualities regarding possible claims by FC Barcelona or tax uncertainties that could arise as a result of the deal.

In order to finally win the premier class, they upgraded one more time in Paris before the current season and signed Lionel Messi, who in the ranks of global superstars is still an entire region above the Brazilian high-wage earner. And Neymar’s new team-mate earns a little more in Paris – although the six-time world footballer has to limit himself significantly: According to “El Mundo”, which leaked Messi’s contract “which ruined Barcelona” last year, the Argentine and new Neymar conceded -Colleague around 138 million euros gross per season since he signed on November 25, 2017. In France, on the other hand, it is “only” an estimated 35 million euros per season – of course net.

However, the sheikh club only made it clear that money does not play a role at all after the end of the last transfer period: A 200 million euro offer from Real Madrid for Kylian Mbappé, the third player from the superstar segment in the service of the French, declined one off easily. Instead, the French world champion will probably switch to the Spanish big club after this season. Free transfer.

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