Brazilian superstar soccer player Neymar (yes one name… on the right in the image below), just smashed all previous records for crazy spending by European football soccer teams.
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Dwarfing the money in America’s NFL, NBA, or MLB, the 25-year-old forward has agreed to join French side Paris St. Germain (PSG) for a stunning EUR222 million ($250 million).
As Statista’s Martin Armstrong notes, the previous record, set last season when Manchester United bought midfielder Paul Pogba from Juventus, was an already astronomical 105 million.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Aug 4, 2017.
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