Then there’s the footballer called Messi, who was paid, per his 2017 four-year contract with the Barcelona football club (BoT said they were heavily in hock to the banks last week), the alarming sum of 555,237,619€. El Mundo (paywall) has just revealed the figures, which keep the footballer in contract with the club until late June this year; and the ‘indignant’ Lionel Messi has now instructed his team of lawyers to sue the paper for revealing this information. The Argentinean footballer isn’t only annoyed with El Mundo for printing out this outrageous sum (with a photo of the contract), he also wants to find out who spilled the beans within the club management.
In fact, Messi makes 1,084 times as much as the 350 deputies in the congreso combined.
I think we would find that the footballer makes a lot more than all the deputies in the national governments of the whole of the EU added together. All this just for stripping off his kit now and again and galloping around a field chasing a ball.
Mind you, and to put it all in perspective, Amancio Ortega, the Zara man, makes 110,448,000€ per month (about ten times as much as Messi).
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