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It's definitely tax avoidance, but it's legal. There is no tax involved when a payment goes strictly from a club to another. That's why the buyout clause is tricky, because it has to be the player who releases himself from his contract.

Actually, PSG negociates with Barça to INCREASE the transfer fee, as crazy as it sounds. If they just pay Neymar 222M to let him release his contract, it would be considered as a wage by the French fisc and PSG would have to pay about a 100 M tax. So, they rather pay 250 or 260 M to Barça and...