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Lionel Messi during his presentation to PSG. (© PSG video capture)
the Paris Saint Germain broke his piggy bank to sign the 34-year-old. But what if Lionel Messi decided to do the same by investing all at once the 41 million euros guaranteed by his contract each year?
Hard to imagine isn’t it? For example, the Argentinian could afford the luxury of providing the 65,083,595 € needed for the construction of the Pompidou center messin in just twenty monthly payslips.
But all these figures certainly still seem abstract to you … In order to help you see more clearly, Lorraine News reveals to you what this can represent in our region.
A royal apartment “for life” at the Hôtel de la Reine
Facing Place Stanislas, the Hôtel de la Reine de Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle) has almost everything to please. So much so that Lionel Messi could also feel at home there quite easily.
If he wanted to rent the establishment’s most prestigious room, the six-fold Ballon d’Or would have to pay € 279 per night in high season. Among other things, if the 41 million euros per year of his salary were devoted to the rental of the royal apartment of the four-star hotel (and soon five), the Argentinian would benefit from the room for 402 years continuously.
A pied-à-terre the size of a castle
Better yet, in the event of a crush on the Ducal City, perhaps Lionel Messi would decide to settle there permanently. Why not then favor an investment in real estate rather than a monopolization of hotel rooms?
Problem : with an average cost of € 2,676 per m², Nancy apartments can be bought at a high price… Except for Messi perhaps. Indeed, in the event of a carpet of 41 million euros, a utopian property of 15,321 m² could be acquired.
In comparison, it must be said that the area of the apartment would correspond to more than half of the 28,000m² of the castle of Lunéville.
The chandeliers of Baccarat: a hundred!
Who buys more than 100 kebabs in the year? Nobody is it? So the question for a chandelier of Baccarat crystals (Meurthe-et-Moselle) does not even arise… Except once again for Messi.
If the left-hander plans tomorrow to spend all these future millions earned in a year at Paris Saint-Germain in the most expensive chandeliers of the company, he could afford 101.
Suffice to say that with the 48 light sources per wall decoration, Lionel Messi would illuminate his home better than a piercing Sun in the middle of August.
The auction record for an easily equaled Lorraine painting
What were you doing on December 08, 2020? Spontaneously, the purchaser of the painting “La Fillette au brasier” by the Lorraine artist Georges de la Tour would tell you that he lived a grandiose day. But he certainly wouldn’t say so much if Messi had been present on auction day.
While the painter’s work was sold for 4.3 million euros that day, the Parisian could easily have raised the stakes with his 41 million euros in his pocket and therefore spoil the party of the collector of ‘art.
Better yet, if this painting was indeed part of the original purchase price but Messi had won the bet, the Argentine player could have afforded eight other tables at the same price … And you, which paintings would you buy with 41 million euros?
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