Brazilian
forward Neymar has filed a fresh lawsuit against Barcelona to demand some €3 million of
unpaid wages from his previous stint at the Spanish club, a judicial source
said Friday.

The lawsuit was filed “a few weeks
ago”, the source told AFP, confirming a report published in Spanish daily
newspaper El Mundo which said the Paris Saint-Germain player was suing the
Catalan giants to collect “€3.2 million
relating to his July 2017 salary”.

According to the newspaper, Neymar alleges
Barcelona withheld part of his salary when he quit the club to join the French
side in 2017.

Neymar’s shock transfer to PSG for a
then-world record €222 million came less
than a year after he signed a contract that would have kept him at the Spanish
club until 2021.

The 27-year-old player argues Barcelona
“did not pay him his final salary as a ‘reprisal’ for having claimed his
extension bonus”, El Mundo reported.

Neymar has already sued Barcelona to demand
the paymenet of €64.4 million which he
negotiated with the club in 2016 in exchange for the extension of his contract
until 2021.

A Barcelona court in September heard both
sides in the dispute, but is yet to issue its ruling.

Barcelona say they paid Neymar a first
tranche of €20.75 million before
he left for PSG, but did not pay him the rest.

The player then sued to collect the rest of the
sum. Barcelona counter-sued to demand that Neymar return the €20.75 million he had already been paid.