
It’s taken Barcelona 57m euros, or £48.6m, to land Neymar from Santos, so naturally Football Burp got thinking: what else can 57m euros, or £48.6m, get you these days? Furthermore, what is it the equivalent of? Here are ten things that cost the same as Neymar in one way or another…
Barbara Streisand’s annual earnings.
The Giraffe chain of restaurants, recently bought by Tesco.
Two health care centres in Aberdeen and one in Forres Moray.
Waste management firm Donarbon.
A recycling plant in Cambridgeshire.
Amsterdam City’s planned investment up to 2016 to improve the use of the bicycle.
Bayern Munich’s merchandise earnings during the 2011/12 season.
The European anti-fraud office OLAF’s budget for the whole of 2012.