Sunday 7 February 2021

The value of Messi

Lionel Messi with the Golden boot trophy he won several times.

Being it’s Superbowl Sunday, we offer best wishes for superstar Tom Brady and his Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Patrick Mahomes and his Kansas City Chiefs – may the best team win! However I write today about another superstar. Football fans worldwide were treated to some hot sporting gossip this ast week after superstar player Lionel Messi’s Barcelona contract was leaked. The four-year contract signed in 2017 stipulates that the 33-year-old striker-captain was promised an insane €555,237,619… most of which Messi has already received. Yes, that’s more than half a billion. That number is already outrageous and crazy at face value, but when you break it down further, it only gets crazier. Well beyond the multiple bonuses on offer (over €115 million just for renewing his contract and over €14 million for winning the Champions League being just two on the list), Messi was pocketing a bare minimum of €138,809,405 every single year. 

That’s €11,567,450 per month.

That’s €2,669,411 per week.

That’s €380,299 per day.

That’s €15,845 per hour.

That’s €264 per minute.

That’s €4 per second.

Really is any person worth so much, when so many millions are on the brink of starvation?

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