Just a couple of days ago, the football world was shaken by the news of Italian national team striker Graziano Pelle's move to the "Shandong Luneng" team.
The 30-year-old Italian, who has spent his entire career playing for mediocre teams, was lured by the Chinese club with a staggering salary - 40 million euros will be paid out over a season and a half.
Earning 350 thousand euros per week, the player immediately rose to the top of the list of the highest-earning footballers on the planet, behind only Cristiano Ronaldo (21 million euros/per season), Lionel Messi (20), Hulk (20) and Neymar (19).
The website goal.com calculated what the newly minted multimillionaire G.Pelle could buy:
- After just one hour of work (1800 euros), the player could dine in a luxurious restaurant in the city of Milan
- With a day's earnings (41,900 euros), Pelle could buy a new "Audi A3" car
- For a similar sum, he could sit courtside and watch crucial NBA finals games
- For 36,400 euros, he could have his own personal stylist like Justin Bieber at his service
- With 44,000 euros, he could enjoy a great stay (10 nights) at the exclusive "Burj Al Arab" hotel in Dubai
- For a bit longer splurge, he could try a flight to space with "Virgin Galactic" for 226,000 euros
- Upon returning to Earth, he might want to drive a "Bentley Mulsanne" (308,000 euros)
- After a month of playing, G.Pelle could afford to buy apartments in the center of Milan (1.3 million euros)
- After two months (~2.9 million euros), a private jet
- Three months of sweating during matches and training could turn into a "Lamborghini Veneno Roadster" (3.6 million euros)
- After four months, G.Pelle could buy all the players of the team "Lecce" (5 million euros)
- His six-month salary would allow him to form the entire annual budget of the "Frosinone" team in Serie A season 2015/16 (8 million euros)
- For just a little less than his seasonal salary, Pelle could already buy a private island in Brazil (about 12 million euros)
- After two years spent in China, the striker could buy the midfielder Miralem Pjanic for his team (32 million euros)
- If he wanted to decorate his house with an exclusive painting, he couldn't find anything better than C.Monet's painting "Water Lilies" for 40 million euros.
