Skint Footballers - Obafemi Martins

[surrey jim]

Championship - Martins 'skint' on £75,000 a week

Former Newcastle United striker Obafemi Martins was broke despite earning £75,000 a week, a High Court judge has been told.
Martins was "constantly overdrawn" and regularly blew £40,000 in a weekend before withdrawing another £25,000 on Monday, the court heard.
The 25-year-old is being sued by his former agent, Chris Nathaniel, whose company NVA claims it managed every aspect of his life and gave him cash advances.
NVA say he owes a £284,000 fee plus interest for managing his finances and other areas, and used Nathaniel in what Judge Richard Seymour QC described as "a Jeeves role".
Martins signed the a lucrative £75,000-a-week contract when he joined Newcastle from Internazionale for £10 million in 2006.
Robert Tennink, the lawyer representing NVA, told the High Court in London: "Despite earning these vast sums of money he was constantly overdrawn."
Martins, now of German champions Wolfsburg, owned a multi-million pound mansion in Darras Hall, Northumbria and rented a luxury flat on Newcastle's Quayside. He also had several high-performance cars.
The striker is fighting the claim. He was not in court on Thursday and the hearing is scheduled to last for three days.
Eurosport

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/20112009/58/championship-martins-skint-75-000-week.html


Is he living in a dream world - £25,000 cash withdrawals and spending £40k on the weekend, The ammount most fans probabaly earn in over a year

 

[Superphil]

Tell me again what's wrong with football?

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

40k a WEEKEND?

FLAIR

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

that is WELL flair

fully establishes newcastle as the FLAIR kings of world football

 

[scotjem]

I'm going to have to change banks. Mine only lets you take out £100 at the time.

 

[csider]

4 bottles of expensive wine at claridges, Abromavich does it all the time...The extra 25k was prob for the food!!

 

[hart's shirt]

£40,000 at the weekend.

That's 4 million Mojo sweets. Mind you, it would have taken him all weekend to get the wrappers off.

No wonder he struggled there.

 

[bhaexpress]

If his agent is so stupid as to let the bloke spend money like that I have little sympathy.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

40k a WEEKEND?

FLAIR

playing poker can be expensive.

 

[surrey jim]

playing poker can be expensive.

that was my first thought too

 

[The Peanut Roaster]

I'm going to have to change banks. Mine only lets you take out £100 at the time.