Sports transfer
Philippe Coutinho: $160M moved in 2018
Barcelona signed him from Liverpool for €120m plus €40m in add-ons, one of the largest fees ever paid.
The figure
- Amount160,000,000 US dollars
- CategorySports transfer
- CorridorLiverpool, United Kingdom → Barcelona, Spain
- Distance1.4K km apart
- Year reported2018
- Documentation confidence92/100
What that amount buys
$160M is roughly 2 long-range private jets, 381 median-priced US homes, or 2.0K years of median US household income.
Philippe Coutinho is publicly known as footballer. The arc drawn for this entry joins Liverpool and Barcelona because those are the places the two sides of the deal are based — it is not the route a wire took through the banking system.
Source
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