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Written by Ollie Kew
Remember that one-off Rolls-Royce Sweptail from a moths or so back? Ten million quid, that cost. It"s supposedly the most expensive new car ever, making the Bugatti Chiron look comparatively cheap as chips at just 2.5 million, give or take some lacquered carbon fibre.Yet this week, the Roller, and every other car from here to a Ferrari 250 GTO, was made to look quite small fry, after a French football club agreed to pay 200m for a man. FC Barcelona gets the lump sum, and Paris Saint-Germain then pays Neymar Jr 40.7m a year for his services as a footballer. Naturally, this has led to much gnashing of teeth about the crazy numbers involved, and how you could buy entire teams of players, and a decent club to employ them at, with the same sum. Clearly, we should instead be mulling over how to put these vast quantities of money into context, by drawing up a TG shopping list. Here"s what you could"ve, erm, scored
Date written: 4 Aug 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 8730
Remember that one-off Rolls-Royce Sweptail from a moths or so back? Ten million quid, that cost. It"s supposedly the most expensive new car ever, making the Bugatti Chiron look comparatively cheap as chips at just 2.5 million, give or take some lacquered carbon fibre.Yet this week, the Roller, and every other car from here to a Ferrari 250 GTO, was made to look quite small fry, after a French football club agreed to pay 200m for a man. FC Barcelona gets the lump sum, and Paris Saint-Germain then pays Neymar Jr 40.7m a year for his services as a footballer. Naturally, this has led to much gnashing of teeth about the crazy numbers involved, and how you could buy entire teams of players, and a decent club to employ them at, with the same sum. Clearly, we should instead be mulling over how to put these vast quantities of money into context, by drawing up a TG shopping list. Here"s what you could"ve, erm, scored
Date written: 4 Aug 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 8730
