- Barcelona want to discuss new contract with Neymar this year
- Neymar's contract runs out in 2018 and Barca want to extend to 2021
- Neymar's mandatory buyout clause will be set at staggering £182m
Barcelona
will sit down with Neymar’s advisors before the end of the year to
discuss a new five-year contract that will see his buyout clause
increase to €250million (£182m) in line with Lionel Messi’s.
The
discussions were planned at the end of last season by president Josep
Bartomeu before he stood down for the club elections that he then won in
July.
The
player’s current deal runs until 2018 and the club want him to sign a
new contract before the end of this season that will tie him down until
2021. His salary is officially set at €8.8m (£6.4m) net per season but
Barcelona are still in court over the accusation that they structured
his transfer from Santos in such a way as to top up his earnings while
avoiding income tax.
Neymar (right) chats with Barcelona team-mate Lionel Messi in training earlier this week
The Brazilian forward is set to be offered a new five-year contract with a buyout clause of £182million
The
club paid a sum of €40m (£29.2m) to his parent’s company N&N as a
penalty for signing him one year ahead of the pre-agreed date but are
accused of using this as a form of disguised salary - €8m (£5.8m) for
each of the five years of his first contract.
Barcelona
have always planned to increase Neymar’s earnings in his third year at
the club and they are likely to position him closer to Messi who earns
€20m (£14.6m) net.
On
the pitch the 23-year-old has been a phenomenal success scoring 39
goals last season in a Barca front three that, with Messi and Luis
Suarez, scored 122 goals. The club won the Treble and Neymar also scored
in the Champions League final.
Neymar (2nd right) and his Barcelona team-mates celebrate their Champions League success in June
He
has also settled in off the field moving his four-year-old son Davi
Lucca to Barcelona from Brazil. The boy’s mother Carol Dantas has
brought her son to Catalonia so that he does not have to travel back and
forth from South America to see his father.
Davi
Lucca is understood to have been registered in one of the city’s
schools and on Monday his family and the families of Messi and Suarez
attended his fourth birthday party. All three Barcelona forwards have
sons of a similar age.
Neymar
has now recovered from adult mumps and is in full training but
Saturday's home game against Malaga could still be too soon for him to
return.
If
Luis Enrique leaves him out at the weekend he could have a further two
weeks to recover because of the break for internationals.
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