Reason Why Court Ordered Neymar To Pay Barcelona £6m

Paris St-Germain forward Neymar must pay €6.7m (£6.1m) to former club Barcelona, a Spanish court has ruled. The Brazil international claimed he was owed €43.6m in loyalty bonuses by Barcelona, who he left in August 2017.

A judge ruled in favour of the La Liga side, but 28-year-old Neymar, who filed the lawsuit shortly after the transfer, can appeal against the decision.

The Brazilian left the Spanish club for PSG in 2017 for a world record fee of £201m (€222m).

The PSG star sought a court ruling concerning the terms of the last contract he signed at the Nou Camp a year earlier.

Neymar had been linked with a return to the Nou Camp over the last year with a move close last summer, but the court ruling appears to have now ended any potential future move.

In other news, Real Mallorca manager, Vicente Moreno, has vowed never to get into fights with Lionel Messi or anger the Barcelona captain again.

According to him, he engaged in a heated outburst on the touchline with Messi back in December 2019, when the two teams met in La Liga, and the Argentine captain told him that Barcelona would score his team seven goals.

However, Barcelona was unable to score seven goals against Mallorca in the encounter, but the Catalan club went on to win 5-2, with Messi grabbing three goals.

“My players told me after the game that I had been the culprit for the defeat because I had angered Messi,” Moreno told Edu Pino on YouTube.

“Messi was angry and, in the tunnel at the break, he told me they were going to score seven goals against us, and he told Luis Suarez that they had to score 7.

“However, they didn’t manage to do it, but he scored a hat-trick. He’s the best player in the world. Look at his genius, his character and his rage wanting to win and what happened gives it more value. This time I’ll not get into fights. It’s no good for me.”