Doesn't matter, I think 120.2m is fair.
Neymar didn't say he wanted to move when he signed, but surely Barca knew that if he was offered obscene money at another club there was a chance he'd want that money. They were being mean when they put that buyout there as it was unreasonable for other clubs to pay it.
And you're some kind of Guru or something? When Pogba goes above 100M Neymar isn't only worth 120M.
The thing is, you're being a know-it-all who doesn't seem to know how release clauses work in Spain and why we have to deal with that concept while other countries don't.
Release Clauses
don't relate to market value, neither exist to regulate market. Clubs and players set the release clause amount negotiating between them in certain terms that are not arbitrary, release clauses are there for you to have a chance to buy out your contract but you have to put some money on top of that to compensate the club for the fact that you're not fulfulling your whole contract and now they have to look for someone to replace you leaving your workspace when they had planned for you to stay for years.
A release clause can't be lower than the whole wages you're going to receive in your contract, so, why a 120M release clause wouldn't fly? Because Neymar was going to receive around ~30M per year from 2016 to 2021, that alone puts us in 150M (30M above your "fair" amount) and we still have to compensate Barcelona for losing a worker without warning and destroying their project for the 2017/2018 season and onwards, I'd say 70M barely cover for that, seeing how Neymar's replacement costs double that and barely has his level.
Then, there exists farce clauses or "hype" clauses, as the ones you saw with Denilson and what allegedly Ronaldo has (1.000M €) but that's just for the press and fans to jerk off to, those clauses wouldn't stand a chance had the players went to court to dispute them if they wanted to leave the team, because Ronaldo doesn't have a 800M contract neither could Madrid get 200M for damages on him leaving the club.
So, you might hate us as much as you want, but Barcelona are the good guys here, our release clauses are well done, would hold up in court and we don't use them to create hype on our players putting some irrational numbers, they're legal forms for us to cover our asses when someone get's a guy from us. That's why Messi has a fair release clause half the worth of CR7, not because he wants to leave more than Ronaldo or because he's worth less, it's because it's realistic and would hold up in court.
So tell me, we're paying 150M for Dembele and he had a 5 year contract, since you want to compare him to the Neymar situation, how much do you think we would pay for him if Dortmund had to play with our rules? his market value at transfermakt is 1/3 of Neymar, and I doubt he was in 30M a year wages like Ney, Reus was the top earner in the club last season with 8M per year, even if Dembele was at the same wage than Reus, his release clause in Spain would be, at best, 1/3 of what PSG paid for Neymar, ~80M, which is what most of us would find fair.
Yet, you think its fair that we are bound to put realistic release clauses for our players and Liverpool or Dortmund can ask as much as they want, ok... I guess?
