Neymar Senior has today claimed that Manchester United offered £145m to Barcelona last summer to sign Neymar.

Manchester United is the side that offered €190m for Neymar. He has still two years left on his contract but you can all be calm as my son is so happy here.

A few months ago, Neymar’s father added fuel to the fire of the rumours that the player was set to leave, after growing frustrated with tax issues in Spain.

We’re talking about a contract renewal but there are some outstanding things that have us a bit concerned,We need to know if Spain accepts our situation. It’s hard for us because we are being attacked from Brazil and from Spain about fiscal issues.

We’re talking to everyone in order to know what we have to do with all this because we don’t want to be in Spain for two, three, four, five or ten years and then they sting us by surprise, telling us our tax structure isn’t right. I don’t want to talk about persecution but if we don’t have a comfortable situation to work in then we can’t stay in Spain and we will have to leave.