Transfer News: Neymar: Barcelona say Paris St-Germain target has paid his buyout provision

Barcelona forward Neymar has paid his buyout provision of 222m euros (£200m), the Spanish club say.

Neymar, 25, is set to sign for Paris St-Germain for a world record expense, in the wake of revealing to Barca he needed to leave on Wednesday.


The Brazil worldwide's legal counselors paid the aggregate face to face at Barca's workplaces.

Prior on Thursday, Spain's best class La Liga rejected an endeavor to pay it the expense over concerns PSG are damaging Uefa's Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules.

In an announcement, Barca said they "will pass on to Uefa the subtle elements of the above operation so they can decide the disciplinary duties that may emerge from this case".

The club said beforehand that they would report PSG to Uefa, European football's administering body, for a break of FFP rules.

"On Thursday evening Neymar's legitimate delegates went to face to face the club's workplaces and made the installment of 222m euros in the player's name as to the one-sided end of the agreement that assembled the two gatherings," Barca's announcement perused.

n Spain a player must get himself out of his agreement.

This is typically done by saving the measure of the buyout statement with La Liga - Spain's likeness the Premier League - to discharge the player from his agreement. The alliance at that point passes the cash to the offering club.

"We can affirm that the attorneys of the player have come to La Liga to store the statement and that it has been rejected," La Liga revealed to BBC Sport before the installment was made straightforwardly to Barcelona.

FFP rules, first executed amid the 2011-12 season, stipulate that European clubs can't outspend what they gain by more than 30m euros.

PSG are sponsored by cash from Gulf state Qatar and La Liga president Javier Tebas has blamed the French club for "money related doping".

He told AS: "La Liga is setting that state-upheld clubs that contend utilizing 'monetary doping' could destabilize proficient football in Europe."

Weapons store chief Arsene Wenger has scrutinized the arrangement, saying: "Once a nation possesses a club everything is conceivable and it winds up plainly hard to regard Financial Fair Play."