The Week in Numbers: Messi-coin and frugal Google

From a cryptocurrency bonanza for Lionel Messi, to a pay cut for Googlers, this is the Week in Numbers.

Up to $35 million is the reputed 'welcome package' for soccer star Lionel Messi as he joins new club Paris St Germain. A big slug of that comes in the team's cryptocurrency tokens. PSG said trading volumes for the fan coins hit $1.2 billion in the days ahead of Messi's arrival.

Alex Dreyfus is the boss of token issuer Socios.com:

"What matters here is how we can create a new revenue stream for clubs, because their industry will sponsor ticketing, merchandising, it's reaching kind of a ceiling. There is a maximum of revenue they can generate."

$2.5 billion is the price for all the Reebok sneakers. Adidas is selling the firm for around that sum to Authentic Brands Group. The German giant has concluded that tie-ups with celebs like Kanye West and Beyonce did more for it than slow-growing Reebok ever would.

Up to 20% was the debut-day tumble for shares in South Korean gaming firm Krafton. The maker of 'PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' held the country's second-biggest-ever IPO on Tuesday. Analysts blamed the price tumble on a lofty valuation, and worries over what China's tech crackdown might mean for the company.

$10 billion is the valuation of meme-stock mayhem. Or at least it's the valuation of social media platform Reddit in a new funding round. Long in the shadow of Facebook and Twitter, Reddit has this year taken center stage, with its chat forums powering huge gains for firms like GameStop and AMC.

And up to 25% is how big a pay cut could be coming for Google staffers, if they opt to keep working from home in lower-cost neighborhoods. That's according to company sources and an internal pay calculator seen by Reuters. The figure has some Google folk sticking with long commutes, even when WFH is an option. The search giant would only say that it's always based pay on location.

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