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#1 Neymar's earth-shattering move to PSG underlines football's power-shift
ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-EIGHT MILLION POUNDS STERLING.
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TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY-TWO MILLION EUROS.
TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY-THREE MILLION US DOLLARS.
I'm sorry, but I had to put it in caps. The fee that Paris Saint-Germain put on the table to activate Neymar Jr.'s release clause is the most ludicrous the world of football has seen (although it was soon matched by Barcelona themselves when they paid up €140 million for a player who 'commanded' a €15 million transfer fee the year before) but - and bear with me here - it isn't the money that's the talking point.
Neymar, Barcelona, PSG, and the 'values' of a modern footballer
It's the fact that Paris Saint-Germain rocked up to Barcelona... BARCA-FREAKING-LONA... and took away their second best player without as much a flicker of their eyebrows. Barcelona does this to people, it doesn't happen to them.
Until now, that is.
