Messi’s new contract: $674 million over 4 years...yes you read that correctly.
Alright, so you may or may not have seen the news that was leaked yesterday evening, the newspaper El Mundo in Spain dropped a bombshell story. They revealed the details of of Leonel Messi's leaked contract that he has apparently agreed to with Barcelona for four years. Now, this deal, this four year playing contract is the most expensive contract in the history of professional sports. Yes, all of professional sports. Now let me break this down for you a little bit
phil spade
@Phil · 3:33
Wow. This is really staggering. I mean, this number is just it's kind of tough to really kind of take it in. It's like when you when you hear national debt numbers, they just become a number and you really don't even truly stop to think about out for four years work. This is over half a billion dollars just crazy to think about this. And I have some questions here that hopefully you could be able to answer
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Hey, Phil, you asked some really good questions, and I'll do my best to answer them. So the way that I understand sponsorship deals, let's put it this way. This deal, the money that you're seeing here, my understanding is it has nothing to do whatsoever with any sort of shirt sales at all. This is purely his contract and what he will be paid for his services. Now, he probably has something worked in about search shirt sales and getting a particular percentage
Logan Kelley
@FlaGooner89 · 0:49
He doesn't seem like he's happy there anymore or it wasn't. But, yeah, it seems kind of crazy that he would accept that if he does. I mean, I can't blame the guy. He's going to be a billionaire. So good for him and his family. But, yeah, that's absolutely insane. That amount of money. Holy cow. Just give me, like, ten grand, bro. I just need ten GS