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  • Other clubs transfer thread Summer 2017 ( Barcelona sign Dembele)

FWIF I'm not sure what France's/Spain's tax rules are or what his residency status is for tax purposes but normally he'd still have to pay tax on that regardless of where the income arose. I stress normally of course because, evidently, tax rules don't apply to El Classico footballers.

goon wrote:

FWIF I'm not sure what France's/Spain's tax rules are or what his residency status is for tax purposes but normally he'd still have to pay tax on that regardless of where the income arose. I stress normally of course because, evidently, tax rules don't apply to El Classico footballers.

Yeah, there's no way he isn't going to be taxed on the $300m. It's the same as suggesting a corporation won't be taxed in their home country for money made doing business with organisations in Qatar. It doesn't make sense. The breakdown looks like a massive simplification of a complex arrangement. 

What I've seen doing the rounds is:

€300m taxed at 45% leaving €165m
€25m loyalty bonus from Barca
Neymar chips in €32m

Pays release clause of €222m

Joins PSG and receives a signing bonus of €32m+

Seems a bit far fetched though.

His underlying stats suggest his goals will dry up. I'd bet he'll flop.

He has never impressed me all that much when i've seen him play

Nice to see Barca getting done over.

Yeah it's done, any PSG forwards we can bring in? Di Maria would be very nice.

Don't know if we can bring in anyone from PSG but it is bound to have a domino effect. August should be interesting.

spooky deal

reckon dybala or dembele will replace him

Gazza M wrote:

spooky deal

reckon dybala or dembele will replace him

Spanish papers saying they are going to go all out for Dembele and Coutinho.

Gazza M wrote:

spooky deal

reckon dybala or dembele will replace him

Monumental downgrade though. And that's putting it mildly.

If they get Mbappé then it'd still be a big short term downgrade but long term actually not too bad.

I think we might see a barren few years for Barcelona...

Ricky1985 wrote:
Gazza M wrote:

spooky deal

reckon dybala or dembele will replace him

Monumental downgrade though. And that's putting it mildly.

If they get Mbappé then it'd still be a big short term downgrade but long term actually not too bad.

I think we might see a barren few years for Barcelona...

Messi?!

Neymar didn't have the best of seasons last year anyway, they'd cope with it no problems as long as their coach is competent enough. Don't even think Neymar would catapult PSG to top of europe straight away.

I was stunned watching Messi in the ties with PSG and Juventus last season. He was genuinely terrible in all 4 games.  I didn't watch him in La Liga but he definitely looks like he's lost at least a step to me.

I think even if Messi adapts to being that bit less explosive - and he will because he's the best player I've ever seen - Barcelona will still lose a huge amount of quality when Neymar departs. He's 5 times as good as Dybala and 10 times as good Dembele.

Overall though I think the quality of their team just gets worse with every passing year.

Neymar won't catapult anyone straight to the top - it is a team game afterall and PSG lack quality elsewhere - but he is utterly brilliant and on a completely different level to everyone they've had playing for them since the Qatari's took over.

Yeah. No doubting Neymar's class but his goals and assists are easily replaced. The bigger issue for Barcelona is how to replace Messi long term because they've failed to replace the quality of Xavi and Iniesta badly.

You can't replace Messi. I think he can still be brilliant for them for a while yet if they change his role, perhaps playing as a Number 10 would suit him?

Neymar was about as good as they could hope for as someone to carry the baton over the next 5 years or so but it was never quite right for him there I don't think. He'll be a huge loss.

Neymar will go up a level now that he's out of Messi's shadow. Two seasons ago, when Messi had a few months out injured, Neymar was absolutely killing it. I hadn't seen such an exciting, entertaining player since Ronaldinho.