Professional players have always shown off their skills when they got to training. Antoine Walker, a former player for the Boston Celtics, drove his Ferrari to the gym as a sneaky flex, which made Michael Jordan, a competition addict, very angry.

The second dog was supposedly so bored by Walker’s attempt to become alpha dog that he showed up to training every day in a different Ferrari while wearing the same Jumpman sweatsuit. In this day and age, only Neymar Jr.’s customised Mercedes-Benz chopper can compare to Michael Jordan’s way of arriving at practice.

Go back in time. 2019 was the year. Hope used to win out over things like burning ash and COVID-19 particles. The Paris Saint-Germain player returned to international action with Brazil before the Copa America tournament. He had been out for three months with a metatarsal strain. Neymar didn’t come to the Granja Comary sports centre in Teresopolis, Brazil, in a racecar or with a driver. He came in a Mercedes-Benz Airbus H-145 chopper.

It is 13.64 metres long and 3.95 metres high, and it can go 150 mph (241 km/h). The unique furniture in the VIP room was made by Mercedes. It has room for 11 people.

One can of fuel can take an Airbus H-145 twin-engine helicopter 351 nautical miles (404 statute miles or 650 km) in the air. The midnight black paint job and logo on the seats inside the skybird are said to be references to Batman, who is Neymar’s favourite figure. Ink from The Dark Knight and Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man are on his back.

His Embraer Legacy 450 and Mercedes-Benz Airbus H-145 chopper, which cost him €13 million a year (AU$20.3 million a year), take him all over the world. Are you a skilled baseball player who doesn’t have a private plane that costs €12.2 million or $19.1 million?