And you think we're crazy? (You really can't make this stuff up.)

A Spanish bank needed a cash dole from the taxpayers of Europe the ECB, but the ever-prudent gnomes of Berlin said nein, not mitout collateral.

So  banker Don Pesos y Muggers y Acquisiones offered up the world's most expensive footballer to back his pipedream du jour.  

"The most expensive footballer in history may now be used to guarantee the solvency of a Spanish bank. “Ronaldo in the bailout fund,” headlines Süddeutsche Zeitung. The daily reports that the Bankia group of savings banks, which financed Real Madrid’s acquisition of the Portuguese player, is now seeking to borrow funds from the European Central Bank."


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Far as I know our feds still think they own Roger Clemens. He's getting a little long in the tooth but could still have some box-office entertainment value. Let's have Geithner list him as an asset and see what he'll hock for.