Oh, you think Barcelona adding a 1 billion euro release clause in Pedri’s new contract was ridiculous? Well, you haven’t seen anything yet. There have been much weirder and much more bizarre contract clauses in football history and we will be bringing you some of them in this video today.
When Liverpool signed Roberto Firmino from Hoffenheim and put a 98 million euro release clause in his contract, that surely was not bizarre. But a closer look at that contract and you will see why it was a pretty unusual one. Liverpool stated that their new striker could be sold to any club for 98 million euros provided that club is not Arsenal. That is to say, the Merseyside club was willing to sell their star striker to even their neighboring rivals, Everton, but surely not Arsenal.
The money paid to lift Neymar from Barcelona in 2017 was not the only shocking thing about that move. Apparently, a clause was included in his contract that allows the Brazilian to earn 375,000 euros per month if he claps to the PSG fans at the end of every game.
Wow. Don’t you wish you were Neymar right now and are being paid to clap? We surely do!
Anyway, PSG came out to clear the air that their number 10 doesn’t earn that bonus for just clapping. He also had to be polite to journalists and reporters, show up to training early, and not bet on competitors.