Barcelona will report Paris St. Germain for a breach of UEFA's financial fair play rules if the French club ends up paying Neymar's €222M ($260.9M) buyout clause, club sources said, according to Samuel Marsden of ESPN.com. There is no mechanism for a club to "report" another club for potential breaches of FFP, but Barcelona "can put pressure on UEFA's Club Financial Control Body to apply the stiffest possible sanctions" if PSG is "found to be in breach." Neymar is "considering an offer from PSG," which sources have said is worth €30M ($35.3M) annually post-tax, but Barça is "not willing to negotiate the Brazilian's sale." Therefore, PSG's only way to sign the forward would be to match his buyout clause, "more than doubling the highest fee ever paid for a player" when Paul Pogba joined ManU from Juventus for €105M last summer. However, Barça believes "no club is capable of paying that sort of money" -- plus the taxes, wages and bonuses included in the deal -- without breaching UEFA's FFP regulations, and will ask European football's governing body to investigate "where the money came from." Another source said on Saturday that PSG is confident it has "found a way to activate Neymar's clause that remains within the FFP limits" (ESPN.com, 7/29).
PARTY TIME: ESPN.com's Jonathan Johnson reported PSG is so confident that it has convinced Neymar to join the club that it has "already started to consider how to unveil him" as its latest signing, a source said. The options being considered are "believed to include a public presentation in Paris and a one-off event at the capital club's Parc des Princes home." The source said that PSG has already contacted the Paris police to "enquire about the possibility of a public event," the likes of which it has been "unable to host since unsavoury scenes that marred Ligue 1 title celebrations" in '13, its "first league success in 19 years." This makes an event at Parc des Princes "more likely than a glitzy gathering in the City of Light" (ESPN.com, 7/29).
