On 18th June, Judge José de la Mata agreed to hear a lawsuit lodged by Brazilian company DIS against Barcelona, Sandro Rosell, Josep Maria Bartomeu, Santos and the São Paulo club's higher-ups, as well as Neymar, his father and one of the family's companies. The charges being pursued are corruption and fraud.

DIS, an investment fund that owned 40% of Neymar's rights, believe they were conned because they only received €6.8 million in the deal that took the star to the Camp Nou, when they feel they should have netted at least €34m.

Now MARCA has gained access to a document signed by Rosell and Bartomeu in which they undertook to pay 50% of any compensation due to DIS if a complaint was submitted and a court of law ruled in the company's favour.

The document is an addendum to the transfer paperwork signed by Barcelona and Santos when the deal went through, supposedly for just €17.1m. The fourth point of the agreement reads as follows: "In the event that the sum to be paid is greater than the aforementioned amount [€6.84m], both clubs, Santos and Barcelona, shall be bound to pay half (that is to say, 50% each) of the monies exceeding this sum".

Yet Barcelona have subsequently sought to renege on this agreement and pass the buck entirely to Santos. In a statement released after the investment fund's legal case was approved, the 'Azulgranas' argued the following: "In any event, the issues DIS are pursuing ought to be resolved with Santos".

Other controversial parts of the paperwork bundle include a contract giving Barça first refusal on three Santos players - for which the Catalans paid €7.9m, way above the market rate - and another stipulating that the two clubs would play a friendly in Brazil. Under the terms of the latter deal, Barcelona are supposed to compensate Santos to the tune of €4.5m if the match doesn't take place, which it hasn't to date. DIS believes that these two agreements were in fact ways of increasing the transfer fee while avoiding giving the company its cut, which would be almost €5m in these particular instances.