Diafra Sakho, a West Ham flop, abandoned a £200,000 Lamborghini at the club's training field after leaving for Ligue 1 side Rennes in 2018.
Footballers are paid exorbitant sums of money, which is reasonable given how much money they produce for their teams, and it is preferable that the money goes to them rather than the billionaires who hire them.
If Erling Haaland joins Manchester City, he may become the Premier League's highest-paid player, earning more than £500,000 per week.
But it's not just the wealthy who can afford to spend their money; even the most mediocre players in England's top flight are able to do so.
It's because of his fortune that Sakho, who wasn't exactly one of the top players in the Premier League, was able to simply abandon his Ferrari at West Ham when he left.
In 2018, a club source informed the Daily Mail, "He'd just bought it and left it there."
"It was such a waste of time, sitting there for everyone to see."
The Lamborghini Huracan that Sakho purchased in 2016. Twitter image
Sakho arrived at the Boleyn Ground in 2014 for about £2 million, and the forward made a good impression in his first season, scoring 10 league goals.
However, things only got worse from there, with him scoring only eight more Premier League goals in the next two and a half seasons.
He was sold to Rennes after not starting a single league game in the first half of the 2017/18 season. He had originally joined from France.
His Lamborghini stayed at the Hammers' Rush Green training base for a while after he left, and his form at Rennes and Bursaspor didn't improve after that.
Sakho's time at West Ham is largely forgotten. Image courtesy of Images
Of course, Sakho isn't the only footballer to abandon his vehicle, as Jermaine Pennant memorably did when he left Real Zaragoza in 2010.
Pennant stated he could have signed for Real Madrid back in the day, which would have prevented us from hearing about his own story of forgetting his car.
Fortunately, Sakho did not learn from the Englishman's folly and capacity to toss money away, and eight years later he repeated the same mistake.
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