Barcelona Explains Rare Details of Neymar Deal
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 2014 SPORTS Extras Barcelona explains rare Celta ruin Calderon debut with 4-2 win VIGO: Forward Fabian Orellana scored two goals as Celta Vigo beat bottom-place Real Betis 4-2 in the Spanish league on Friday, ruining the debut of Coach details of Neymar deal Gabriel Calderon. Betis hired Calderon on Monday, its third manager of the season, after Juan Carlos Garrido was fired. But the visitors continued to show the same BARCELONA: Barcelona offered a rare peek had reached 100 million euros and includ- holes in defense as Celta picked them apart following into the obscure world of soccer contracts ed twice the salary Barcelona could offer. Ruben Castro’s opener for Betis in the 17th minute. yesterday, insisting Neymar’s transfer cost Barcelona said Neymar would get an addi- Orellana headed in Rafina’s lobbed pass to level five was 57.1 million euros ($78 million) and tional 2 million euros if he is a finalist for minutes later and struck again in the 39th from a pass announcing the Brazilian star will earn at FIFA Player of the Year. Neymar’s deal by Charles after the striker had made it 2-1. Charles set least 56.7 million euros over five years. includes a 10 million euros signing bonus up another goal, this time for Manuel “Nolito” Agudo, in Team President Sandro Rosell resigned and a 2.7 million euros payment to his the 73rd, before Castro scored his second goal in the Thursday after a judge had agreed to hear a father, who acts as his agent. 78th. lawsuit brought by club member Jordi Barcelona agreed to pay 4 million euros Cases alleging he had hid the real cost of over five years in a marketing deal to “give Lille extend poor run, the deal in false contracts. incentives” for companies who use Neymar draw 1-1 with Rennes New President Josep Bartomeu said in their advertising to include Barcelona’s LILLE: Lille extended a poor run of form in the French Neymar’s father, Neymar Silva Santos, had image in Brazil, where it hopes to reap league by drawing 1-1 at home with Rennes on Friday freed the club of confidentiality agree- returns in merchandising. Barcelona agreed to stay third. Salomon Kalou opened the scoring for the ments and allowed Barcelona to make to pay 2.5 million euros over five years to hosts with a close-range header in the 34th minute details public. Bartomeu said that 40 mil- collaborate with Neymar’s charity institute before Rennes midfielder Abdoulaye Doucoure volleyed lion euros of the transfer cost went to the for social projects in Brazil. Barcelona home the equalizer in the 41st. Lille earned 14 clean company N&N, owned by Neymar’s parents signed a deal with a scouting company run sheets from its first 16 league games to look like a as a guarantee that Neymar would sign by Neymar’s father worth 2 million euros potential title contender. But it has dropped 10 points with Barcelona. The other 17.1 million went over five years and it paid Santos 7.9 mil- and conceded seven goals in its last four league games BARCELONA: Barcelona’s president Josep Maria Bartomeu shows a paper with details to Neymar’s former club, Santos. lion euros for the first right to sign or match to trail leader Paris Saint-Germain by nine points. “We of the contract of Neymar at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona yesterday. —AP Bartomeu said bids from other clubs offers for three youth players.—AP must try to create more chances, we can’t always rely on our defense,” Kalou said. Lille forward Nolan Roux charged down the right wing to provide a low cross for Kalou, who controlled the ball with a poor first touch but reacted quickly enough to head in from five yards Arsenal book (meters) for his seventh goal in the league this season. The hosts dominated the first half and should have FA Cup last 16 reached halftime with a bigger lead as Rennes poorly defended set pieces. Lille paid the price when Doucoure converted a pinpoint cross from Romain Alessandrini to LONDON: Lukas Podolski struck twice as Arsenal eased into level against the run of play and Rennes goalkeeper the FA Cup fifth round with a comfortable 4-0 victory over Benoit Costil pulled off a string of brilliant saves in the League One side Coventry at the Emirates Stadium on Friday. second half to secure a point. “In our situation, we could With 54 league places separating the two clubs, an upset was have given up quickly, but that was not the case,” unlikely and late goals from substitutes Olivier Giroud-his 13th Rennes coach Philippe Montanier said. of the season-and Santi Cazorla confirmed Arsenal’s superiori- ty. “In the first half we did the job and took the game to them Don’t write off Man in a serious way and played the way we know we can,” United, Fergie says Gunners manager Arsene Wenger said. LONDON: Alex Ferguson insists under-fire Manchester Asked about a potential move for Schalke midfielder Julian United manager David Moyes can still salvage his side’s Draxler, Wenger added: “Honestly no. That’s an illusion. We’ve season with a strong run in the second half of the cam- no need to take players on the flank.” Wenger had spoken of paign. United have struggled badly since Ferguson his determination to add to his haul of four FA Cup successes retired at the end of last season after almost 27 years in in the build-up to the game. Arsenal’s last triumph in the com- charge at Old Trafford. Ferguson hand-picked Moyes as petition came in 2005 when they beat Manchester United in his successor but the former Everton boss has so far the final, the last time the north London club won silverware failed to emulate his fellow Scot’s triumphant reign. of note. And Wenger’s intention to avoid any risk of a shock United are languishing 14 points behind Premier was reflected in his team selection with Germany’s Mesut Ozil, League leaders Arsenal and face a battle just to finish in the club’s record signing, included in a strong starting line-up. the top four. To make matters worse they have also It soon became clear the Premier League leaders would crashed out of both the FA and League Cups. Yet prove too hot to handle for their third tier opponents. While Ferguson says there is no limit to what United can achieve if they can turn on the style in the manner his the Gunners have spent much of the campaign fending off teams so often did in the decisive final months of the challengers at the head of the top flight, Coventry started the NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN: Bayern Munich’s Spanish head coach Pep Guardiola gestures during the German first season. “United can do anything. They have got that season with a 10-point penalty after falling into administra- division Bundesliga football match Borussia Moenchengladbach vs FC Bayern Munich in the German city of great philosophy and history, they will always do well,” tion and forced to play their home games at Northampton Moenchengladbach on January 24, 2014. Bayern won 0-2. —AFP Ferguson said. “I can watch the team whenever I want Town, 31 miles away. The way they have overcome the odds to and I’ve really enjoyed it. I’m going as a supporter now climb to within 10 points off the League One play-offs has and instead of suffering with the team, I’m suffering or drawn praise for the players and manager Steven Pressley. Guardiola out to extend enjoying it with the fans. I’m really enjoying watching But while this meeting provided the 1987 FA Cup winners the team play.” Ferguson was given strong support by with a taste of what life used to be like before the club’s United’s board of directors when he struggled during decline, it was never going to deliver a place in the next Bayern’s ten-point gap the first few years of his reign. And he is confident round. Arsenal dominated from the opening moments, mov- United’s current owners the Glazer family will show the ing the ball around freely and giving a clear signal this would same kind of backing for Moyes. They have already giv- be a long evening for the visitors. Jack Wilshere had already Leaders Bayern kick off year with Gladbach win en the green light for Moyes to spend a club record £37 fired wide and Podolski missed a glaring opportunity by firing million to sign Spain playmaker Juan Mata from over from six yards before the German found the target to BERLIN: Record-breaking Bayern three more points at Stuttgart on Germany striker Max Kruse as Chelsea. And Ferguson told BBC Sport: “Of course they give Arsenal a 13th minute lead. Munich may have opened up a 10- Wednesday.” It was Guardiola who Gladbach suffered their first home will (stick to their philosophy), they’ve always been that This time the forward showed much more composure, col- point gap in the Bundesliga, but learnt the biggest lesson from the defeat of the season to abruptly end way. “There’s no need to go down that road (discussing lecting a pass from Ozil and rounding Coventry goalkeeper coach Pep Guardiola is already eying Salzburg defeat as he abandoned an their eight-match unbeaten run.