Samuel Eto'o is unlikely to receive any compensation from the Blaugrana...Barcelona are confident that they will not have to pay €3 million to Samuel Eto'o, despite the player claiming he is owed 15 per cent of the transfer fee paid by Inter for him in the summer.
The Catalan club's vice president for finance, Joan Boix, believes that the compensation ruling only applies at national level and that the money is paid to the player by the buying team.
Eto'o has made a claim for 15 per cent of the €20m that Barca received for him in the swap deal that saw Zlatan Ibrahimovic head to Inter.
"I am sure that this will end up in court," Boix told COM Radio.
"We believe that the rules protect us. It will take someone else to decide if Barca should pay.
"But I think that the possibility of that is very remote."
Transfers between Spanish clubs see players paid 15 per cent of the fee by the club who bought them, so Barcelona think that Eto'o is claiming from the wrong side.
"We know clearly that this happens at national level, but anyway, the club who should pay is the one who are buying," he concluded, denying that this is standard when a player makes an international move.