Barcelona: Pundits discuss if Neymar will stay at PSG
Neymar will be free to terminate his Paris Saint-Germain contract this summer - but any potential suitor will have to pay an extreme amount of compensation.
FIFA’s ‘Regulations on Status and Transfer of Players’ has a caveat which allows players who signed a contract under the age of 28, which has been running concurrently for three or more years, to hand in their notice and effectively leave the club.
If Neymar had terminated his own contract in the first three years, which is dubbed the ‘protected period’, he could have been hit with a six-month ban.
The Brazilian would also likely have been sued for a very heavy fee.
Any club that takes a gamble on such player will also be hit with a two-period registration ban if the ‘protected period’ was broken.
It is also stated that a contract cannot be broken during the regular season and must be at least 15 days after the final match.
Neymar can terminate his PSG contract this summer so long as he pays compensation (Image: GETTY)
But Neymar signed a five-year contract with PSG in August 2017 in a world record £198million deal.
As there has been no contract renewal since so the attacker can technically buy himself out of his contract this summer when his 'protected period' ends this summer.
According to Spanish publication Mundo Deportivo, Barcelona officials are confident the compensation due would be around £157m (€180m) - £31m cheaper than they sold him for.
The conditions for calculating the compensation are based on the time remaining on the contract and the fees paid by the former club.
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Mundo Deportivo claim Barcelona chiefs reckon they can land Neymar for £157m (Image: Mundo Deportivo)