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A few days ago, the new Spanish champion "Barcelona" officially announced the acquisition of "Santos" and Brazilian national team talent Neymar.
The Catalan club did not disclose the transfer fee, but it is rumored in the football world that "Barca" paid 25-30 million euros for the 21-year-old striker from the Brazilian club, offering Neymar an annual salary of 7 million euros.
It is known that the "Santos" club only had 55% of the player's rights, with the remaining 45% belonging to the DIS company and the investment group "Teisa," but it is unclear whether Barcelona bought out the remaining rights.
According to the Spanish sports newspaper "El Mundo Deportivo," some lawyers argue that this is not necessary at all, and the club just needs to have more than 50% of the player's rights.
In any case, Real Madrid president Florentino Perez stated that the Madrid team offered twice as much money to Santos and Neymar himself to play for Real.
According to another Spanish newspaper "Marca," the buyout of Neymar cost Barcelona up to 55 million euros, meaning that Real was ready to pay over 100 million euros. In that case, Neymar would have become the most expensive football player of all time.
Nevertheless, the Brazilian chose Barcelona, and the Catalan coach Tito Vilanova congratulated the striker, stating that Neymar was looking beyond money.
Barcelona usually publicly announces the circumstances of acquiring new players and contract details, so we should soon find out the truth about how much the Brazilian football talent really cost them.
