La Liga has rejected an attempt by lawyers for Barcelona forward Neymar to pay his buyout clause of 222m euros (\u00a3198m).<\/p>\n
The Brazil international, 25, is\u00a0set to sign\u00a0for Paris St-Germain for a world record fee, after telling Barcelona he wanted to leave on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Spanish media say\u00a0La Liga officials believe<\/i>\u00a0PSG are violating Uefa’s Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules.<\/p>\n
But PSG do not think the issue will delay Neymar’s transfer.<\/p>\n
A senior source at the Ligue 1 club told BBC Sport’s Richard Conway that La Liga are acting unlawfully, so they are taking steps to resolve the situation.<\/p>\n
Barcelona previously said they would\u00a0report PSG\u00a0to Uefa, European football’s governing body, for a FFP breach.<\/p>\n
In Spain a player must buy himself out of his contract.<\/p>\n
This is done by depositing the amount of the buyout clause with La Liga – Spain’s equivalent of the Premier League – to release the player from his contract. The league then passes the money to the selling club.<\/p>\n
“We can confirm that the lawyers of the player have come to La Liga to deposit the clause and that it has been rejected,” La Liga told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n
FFP rules,<\/i>\u00a0first implemented during the 2011-12 season, stipulate that European clubs cannot outspend what they earn by more than 30m euros.<\/p>\n
PSG are backed by money from Gulf state Qatar and La Liga president Javier Tebas has accused the French club of “financial doping”.<\/p>\n
He\u00a0told AS:<\/i>\u00a0“La Liga is positing that state-backed clubs that compete using ‘financial doping’ could destabilise professional football in Europe”.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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