JAKARTA - Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is often praised for his speed on the pitch. However, the Barcelona striker certainly needs speed off the pitch.
Gabon forward Aubameyang's contract was terminated by Arsenal earlier this year following a dispute with manager Mikel Arteta. He then accepted the proposal of the Blaugrana even though his salary had to be cut massively.
Launching the Daily Star, Monday, May 23, the salary package he received from Barcelona was £80,000 (IDR 14.7 billion) per week. That is, the car collection of the player who has just decided to retire from the Gabon national team is more expensive than his contract with the La Liga giants.
According to Vanarama, who has crunched the data to compare the weekly earnings of some of football's most iconic footballers, Aubameyang's car collection costs £3.9 million.
The Barca forward often flaunts photos of his incredible car on Instagram. So, what is the most attention-grabbing Auba car? You could say, various Lamborghinis.
One post shows four Lamborghinis parked outside his stunning home. There are also two Urus 4x4, an Aventador and a Huracan Spyder, customized in chrome and gold.
That's not all, the four cars are housed alongside the luxurious LaFerrari Aubameyang, one of only 499 Ferraris ever made. The purchase of this type of car alone has made the striker pour out 2 million pounds.
Apart from that, Auba has a Porsche Panamera Turbo Techart worth £140,000, a Range Rover Sport which is estimated to cost £150,000, an Audi R8 V10 worth £160,000, and a beautiful Aston Martin DB9 Volante 2, worth a quarter of a million pounds.
The former Arsenal forward was also spotted sporting a sweet white Bentley Bentayga, likely to cost over £133,000. However, it's not just a luxury car that the striker is proud of, he's been spied around in a Volkswagen Beetle Cabriolet, which costs a lot less than £22,000.
According to Marca, Monday, Aubameyang had an interest in cars since childhood. "When I was a kid, if I didn't play football, I played with the car, that's all.
"I inherited the passion of my father, who at the time had a red Audi Quattro and was very beautiful."
Aubameyang then followed in his father's footsteps by owning his own Audi - a car the striker later sold with regret. Since then, Auba has opened his extensive car collection, which began in 2010.
"It was my favorite car and it was the first one I owned. I kept it for a long time, I regret selling it. I have also customized it by adding an R8 kit and butterfly wing doors," Auba said in his first Instagram post about Audi.
The FA Cup winner also admits he enjoys tweaking many of his cars to express his creativity and daring personality. He added: "Customization represents more than 50 percent [of cars]. It's very important because it's what makes your personality stand out.
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"Personally, I like things that are brilliant. I have a car in a very different color that is very bright. I'm a creator on the field, but sometimes you also need to be a creator on the outside. I use gold because I like to stand out, it's part of the adjustment."
Despite already owning the incredible assortment of cars most of us could only dream of, it looks like Aubameyang isn't done adding to his fleet yet. The former Gunners captain said: "I don't think my collection is complete.
"There are two cars that I really like: the Pagani Zonda and the Koenigsegg. My goal is to have them in my collection."
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