Saturday, September 4, 2021 at 21:58• Daniel Cabot Kerkdijk • Last update: 22:05

The oil money flowing through Paris Saint-Germain’s offices since 2011 has allowed Neymar to sign what appears to be the second-largest contract ever. That is the conclusion of quality newspaper El Mundo, which already revealed in January of this year that Barcelona would pay no less than €555,237,619 to Lionel Messi between 2017 and 2021. Now the Spanish daily comes with details about the contract Neymar signed with PSG.

El Mundo has seen the documents that Neymar signed in 2017, when he became – and still is – the most expensive footballer ever with a transfer fee of 222 million euros with the Parisians. Each season in the PSG kit meant for Neymar a gross amount of 43,334,400 euros, over five years. If a sixth year were added, he would earn 50,556,117 euros gross in return.

That amounted to a compensation of 3,069,520 euros gross per month between 2017 and 2022. Thirty percent of this went to the tax because he was not a French citizen in the five years before he signed his signature. According to the contract, El Mundo It also read that PSG was obliged to ensure that the Brazilian would never earn less than thirty million euros net per year.

Neymar’s salary plus the transfer clause that PSG had to pay, amounts to a total cost of 489,228,117 euros. Slightly less than Barcelona deemed necessary to keep Messi at the Camp Nou between 2017 and 2021, until the moment that this was no longer financially feasible. At the time of the release of Messi’s documents, Barcelona denied any leaks from the club. The Catalans stressed that it was an attempt by the newspaper to discredit the Argentine.

Neymar signed a new agreement with PSG in May of this year until the summer of 2025. According to French media, the financial terms of the new agreement would not have changed at the time, although it was not formally known at the time what the attacker had gained in the Parc des Princes. Amounts of 35 million euros gross were circulating at the time, but according to El Mundo nevertheless be significantly higher.