Barcelona star Neymar will make a minimum 45.9 million euros ($52.3 million) from his five-year contract with the European champion, football whistleblowing site Football Leaks revealed Monday. The Brazilian's bonus incentivized deal also commits the 24-year-old to learning the local Catalan language. A complicated web of contracts negotiated to complete Neymar's signing from Santos in 2013 has landed Barcelona, the player and his father in trouble with the Spanish and Brazilian authorities over accusations of tax fraud. The controversy over the transfer led Barca to already make certain figures from Neymar's playing contract public in a bid for transparency in 2014. A copy of the full contract shows Barca will have to make up the difference should the player not make at least 45.9 million euros between his signing bonus, salary and a series of performance related bonuses. Barca paid an initial signing-on fee of 8.5 million euros on top of a basic salary of five million euros a season. A treble of Champions League, La Liga and Copa del Rey last season netted Neymar a 1.7 million euro bonus, whilst he will earn an extra 425,000 euros if he can unseat teammate Lionel Messi to win the Ballon d'Or during his time at Barca. The Catalan giant has been in prolonged negotiations with Neymar's father over extending his deal beyond 2018 with Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester United reportedly willing to pay his 190 million euros buyout clause. — Agencies Infantino protests innocence FIFA's under-fire President Gianni Infantino has insisted he has done nothing wrong despite being linked to the Panama Papers leaks, in Monday's edition of German magazine Kicker. In an exclusive interview, the 46-year-old, who was voted as FIFA's new president in February, is adamant he acted correctly in a previous role as legal chief of European football's governing body UEFA. Last Wednesday, Swiss police searched UEFA headquarters in Nyon as part of a "criminal mismanagement" probe into a Champions League television rights deal co-signed by Infantino in 2006. "The whole process was correct and well documented," Infantino told Kicker. "The way it has been presented is simply a disgrace. "The agency's marketing team had recommended that the highest of only two tenders received a contract for the ancillary rights. "The contract was negotiated by the marketing team in detail and examined by two divisions of UEFA, which according to standard procedure, was signed by two UEFA directors. "In this case, I was one of the two directors, but depending on availability, it could have been two other directors. "If, after the contract was concluded, the rights-buyers carried out some unfair transactions, neither UEFA nor I had any personal influence over that." — Agencies
