When Cristiano Ronaldo first arrived in Manchester aged 18, he had come from the humble Portuguese seaside city of Funchal with little to his name beyond a contract as a young player emerging into the first team at Sporting Lisbon.
But within a year of penning a lucrative contract at Old Trafford, the footballing superstar was behind the wheel of a £67,500 Porsche Cayenne - one of the fastest 4x4s on the road.
That would be the start of what is now an obsession with supercars for Ronaldo, who today admitted that he doesn't even know how many cars he has.