Messi reportedly turned down an offer from Manchester City...of...wait for it...you may want to sit down....
£88,000,000 signing on fee
PLUS
£850,000 per week wages.
Assuming the average UK wage is around £30K a year then Messi would have been paid 28 years wages... every week. That's over half of someone's lifetime earnings every week.
Of course it's the people earning 30K a year who are probably funding the ludicrous wages of the footballers.