If you’re into football then you probably know who Lionel Messi is.\u00a0I’m not into football, but my attention was peaked when I heard he’d earned $111 million dollars in 2018 so far!<\/p>\n
That’s $596,774 per day.<\/p>\n
Which is a pretty obscene amount of money for a footballer to earn IMHO.<\/p>\n
In 2017 he signed a contract that pays him $80 million per year.<\/p>\n
Then he makes $27 million per year in endorsements.<\/p>\n
He has a lifetime deal with Adidas.<\/p>\n
Barcelona consider him so valuable that if he ever\u00a0leaves, the club buying him will need to pay $835 million.<\/p>\n
Two things…<\/p>\n
1) I doubt I will ever be that wealthy, nor do I ever need to be.<\/p>\n
2) If you get this email to your inbox then my email reputation has recovered from when I killed it last year, because there are enough dollar signs to light up every spam filter going \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n
Ciao,<\/p>\n
Michael<\/p>\n
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