Barca offered to restructure salaries to pay for Neymar return


FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - International Friendly - Brazil v Senegal - Singapore National Stadium, Singapore - October 10, 2019.Brazil's Neymar.REUTERS/Feline Lim

(Reuters) - Barcelona were so keen to bring Neymar back from Paris St Germain that the players were ready to accept delays to salary payments in order for the club to afford the Brazilian, defender Gerard Pique has revealed.

Barca spent the bulk of the last transfer window trying to lure Neymar back from PSG, two years after he left the Catalans for a world record transfer fee of 222 million euros ($248 million).

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