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PREM ACES DITCH THE LIMOS
Parking is obviously an issue even for mega-rich footballers – Sterling drives an £11,000 Smart car which can squeeze into the tightest spaces.
The £300,000-a-week striker does have a fleet of luxury motors, including a Bentley Continental GT and Lamborghini Urus, but is at home in this nippy number.
The midfielder – Chelsea’s highestpaid player on £290,000 per week – has owned his Mini Cooper S since he first arrived in England to play for Leicester City.
It costs £20,000 new but the canny star got even more of a bargain – he got it second hand.
Man City star Stones scoops a jaw-dropping £100,000 a week but chooses to drive a £5,000 classic Mini Cooper.
One week’s wages would buy 20 of the motors!
When he gave team-mate Kyle Walker a lift to training in the Mini, Walker joked: “Who says footballers aren’t down to earth?” The Chelsea star, who pockets a weekly wage of £100,000, owns a Peugeot 208 GTi, which sells for around £15,000.
That means he could splash out on nine a week if he fancied it! Man City ace Silva is another fan of the humble Smart car. He drives a Fortwo model which costs just £11,000. That is mere chicken feed to the £120,000-per-week Portuguese midfielder. The Spurs striker might struggle to get a game – but he can always rely on his Fiat Punto to get to training.
Llorente, on a weekly salary of £75,000, has owned the modest £5,500 car since he moved to these shores in 2016.
Former Chelsea manager Conte might be worth around £10million but his motoring choices are pretty low-key.
Like Pep, he drives a Nissan – a Duke model worth £15,000.
PREMIER League stars are proving they are actually down to earth – by swapping flash motors for basic rides.
At the weekend, Pep Guardiola was seen driving to training in a Nissan Leaf.
The £20million-a-year Manchester City boss ditched his swanky Bentley for the £28,000 electric vehicle.
And the imam at the mosque where Liverpool’s Sadio Mane worships revealed the ace arrives without a fancy limo. Abu Usamah Al-Tahab said: “He comes to us in a not-so-fancy car, so he is incognito.”
Here NADINE LINGE looks at other Premier League stars in reasonably-priced cars.