Neymar demanded the creation of an agency in Brazil to collect commissions

• ESTEBAN URREIZTIETA

  @eurreiztieta

  Barcelona

• ORPHEUS SUAREZ

  @OrfeoSuarez

  Barcelona

• ILLUSTRATION: BETHLEHEM REVERIEGO

Updated Friday, September 23, 2022-13:02

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Neymar

demanded that

create a commercial office in Brazil through which he would receive a

of each operation they carried out.

The Brazilian footballer pressured the Barça club to give the green light to this project and even sent a draft contract in

, to which EL MUNDO has had access, and which was the subject of innumerable reproaches by the control bodies of the club, who warned that another

.

That is, a legal case similar to the one that will soon put the

(

) player on the bench for having received from the club at the time of

through contracts that the

considered simulated.

The Brazilian international, through his father and agent, Neymar da Silva Santos, discussed

the possible terms of the agreement with the entity chaired by

As happened with other businesses raised by relevant players, those responsible for endorsing the contract at the club, with the

and

departments at the helm, raised severe objections.

"I must draw attention to the fact that a similar contract was precisely one of those that was criminalized -for the time being- in the case called

," stressed Barça's chief lawyer.

Neymar proposed closing the deal through one of his companies,

, domiciled by his father in the Brazilian state of

.

All Barça's businesses in Latin America, through Neymar

The purpose of the same was the "presentation and intermediation of commercial proposals by

in favor of

".

Specifically, from "businesses, sponsors and product licensing companies to perpetuate brands and products in the Latin American market."

Likewise, the NR_Sports company formally committed itself to the "creation, development and installation of a business office with the main objective of spreading the brand and name of FC Barcelona in Latin America".

In short, Barça reserved 80% of the income and the footballer,

At the first change, the club's lawyers already flatly rejected that, as Neymar intended, Barça could only work

.

As well as the fact that the development of the office and its strategy was carried out by the player's family instead of the club.

In other words, the club "cannot be a prisoner of this type of commitment with a society that is only an intermediary."

Once again they also put on the table the "possible conflict of interest" that this initiative would generate and the financial director, Pancho Schroder, added another risk: "The Tax Agency (in its infinite collection effort) could come to consider commissions as income of the player's job.

».

Neymar's departure a few months later took the project with him.

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