Santos said they had ended a three-year fight to keep the 21-year-old, Brazil's big hope for next year's World Cup finals, and agreed to a transfer, giving him the right to choose which offer to accept, though a decision was not imminent.
"In the face of the offers and the player's contract, the management committee of the club decided to sell the player," Santos said in a statement on their website.
"At a meeting with the representatives of Santos FC's management committee, the forward Neymar Jr was informed about the proposals received by the club and will analyse them in the coming days before making a definitive decision," Santos added in a later statement.
"I'm happy by the interest from both clubs, it makes me proud, but now I'm going home because my mother's waiting," Neymar was quoted by Gazeta Esportiva as saying as he left Vila Belmiro with his father.
Representatives of Spain's two leading clubs were in Brazil and Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper put the latest offer from Barcelona at 74 million Brazilian Real.
Neymar, regarded as former Santos great Pele's heir, was the only non European-based player among the 23 finalists for FIFA's player of the year award in 2012 and has been a target of top European sides for at least three years, including Chelsea in 2010.
In November 2011 he said he had signed for Santos until after next year's World Cup tournament but has often said he favoured a move to Barcelona.
The subject of whether Neymar should go to Europe or not became a topic of debate within the national team given how important some players believed it was for him to get experience of facing the world's top defenders.
Such was his impact playing alongside creative midfielder Paulo Henrique Ganso that fans and media wanted to see them both included in Brazil's 2010 World Cup squad in South Africa but coach
