Barcelona paid 95 million euros for Neymar, says El Mundo

Barcelona’s signing of Neymar was the most expensive in history and the Catalan club hid the true figures involved in the deal, according to reports in El Mundo on Monday.
According to the Spanish newspaper, Barça “paid 95 million euros for the signing of Brazilian forward Neymar Da Silva Santos, not the 57 that club president Sandro Rosell officially declared. In other words, 38 million euros more.”
The figures appear in “the contracts signed between the Azulgrana club and the Brazilian player." The newspaper insists it has had access to the documents, which are in the hands of a Spanish judicial investigation.
The documents, says the publication, detail “commissions of millions of euros for Neymar’s family” which up to now have remained “concealed”.
El Mundo reports that the player’s family was paid 8.5 million euros for a variety of purposes and with no actual obligation to provide anything in exchange.
The newspaper explains: “Two million euros went to the player’s father to scout ‘new promising players at Santos’, the club from which Neymar was signed by Barcelona. Four million more for the supposed task of attracting ‘advertising contracts with Brazilian companies’ and a further 2.5 for Neymar’s family, theoretically to go on social purposes, specifically to help ‘the children in the favelas of Sao Paulo’.”
The paper also claims that the documents show the existence of a clause in the player’s deal “through which he will earn a minimum of 54 million euros gross throughout the duration of his contract,” a quantity that the club would reportedly pay even if Barcelona do not win the necessary trophies to reach that amount.
According to El Mundo, Neymar’s father will earn “a 5% commission on the 54 million euros quoted. In total, 2.6 million euros.”