Neymar lost €1m (£900,000) in just an hour of online casino as he streamed it live on his Twitch channel. The Twitter post reads that "Crying at first, he then laughs, remembering it's just a week's pay!" I was very livid reading this and seeing screenshots of his reaction. Because it is very deceitful.
Imagine a gambling who may have lost thousands of dollars today reading this. Instead of feeling bad or remorseful and looking for a way to change, this may even fuel his addiction the more. Sadly, he won't remember that he is not like Neymar who earns £3.2m-per-month.
These celebrities and public figures should be fined for trying to glorify gambling without stating the negative aspects when it is over done.
I usually question how accurate these sort of news releases are, especially after we saw that fiasco with Drake who subtly suggested he was gambling at a certain casino and then a few months later was magically getting paid a sponsorship fee by them. As he says, it is a weeks pay, so hardly a massive hit and it's a shame he treats money so wastefully - he could have donated this money to a charity instead and made it go a lot further. It should actually make people angry that he is so flippant and wasteful with money, footballers do not really deserve such huge sums when they treat it like this. It will ultimately put more pressure on regulators to act against these supposed role models in future.