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Brazilian sensation Neymar was offered £650,000-a-week to join Paris Saint-Germain this summer, his agent claims.
Wagner Ribeiro has revealed that the 24-year-old was offered a world record wage packet from the minted French champions in a bid to lure him away from Barcelona early in the transfer window.
Neymar, who has also previously been linked with a move to Manchester United, signed a new five-year deal at the Nou Camp at the start of July, quashing all talk of a Barcelona exit.
It is alleged that PSG, owned by Qatari billionaires, were willing to pay €190m (£160m) to secure his signature.
Riberio says that Neymar was offered an annual salary of €40m (£33.8m) after tax, is a mammoth weekly sum of £650,000.
“He was very close to PSG. He would have earned €40m a year, free,” Riberio told ESPN Brasil.
“Neymar was also close to a move to Manchester United. But he renewed his contract for less money with Barcelona, because he wanted to stay in Barcelona.”
Neymar's new deal at Barcelona expires in 2021 but he had a €200million release clause inserted into the deal.
That will rise to €222million in the second year of the deal and €250million for the final three years.
Neymar has recently returned to Barcelona following the international break, where he scored in World Cup qualifiers against both Ecuador and Colombia.
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