Off-Duty Soccer Stars: It’s About Whose Man-Bag Wins

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European footballers including Erling Haaland, Kylian Mbappe, and Ousmane Dembele are reportedly competing at airports over who carries the most expensive designer holdall, per Forbes lifestyle coverage.

Haaland's bag, a Hermes Haut a Courroies variant, is estimated at $35,000 to $60,000, a sum the piece notes is dwarfed by his reported weekly pay of $575,593.75 from Manchester City. The article also credits his off-field antics, including a widely covered rowing celebration, with adding tens of millions of Instagram followers.

The piece traces the bag's lineage to 1890s saddlemaker Edouard Hermes and situates today's footballers as heirs to David Beckham's earlier reign as the sport's airport fashion icon.

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A publication devoting paragraphs to whether a soccer player's duffel bag dents his six-figure weekly paycheck has answered its own question before asking it. Somewhere a labor economist is weeping into a spreadsheet.

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