Football star forgets that he owned a top-of-the-range Porsche!

Talk about footballers earning too much money.

It has emerged that Stoke City's Jermaine Pennant left his £100,000, top-of-the-range Porsche at a Spanish train station for FIVE months - because he forgot he owned one!

Just dwell on that thought for a few seconds while you work out how your going to cope with rising fuel and food costs...or indeed how you are going to afford your next season ticket!

According to reports from Spain's Daily Marca, Pennant - who reportedly owns a fleet of sports cars - abandoned the Porsche when he left Real Zaragoza for a loan spell at Stoke City last August, with the Spanish authorities contacting him through his former club last week.

When he got the call Pennant was initially baffled. No, he said, the car wasn’t his. Which seemed a little odd as the registration was P33NNT, a plate that gave a significant clue as to the owner’s identity.

On hearing that, Pennant admitted the fact he owned the Porsche had simply completely skipped his mind and he promptly paid the five figure accumulative parking fees, whilst arranging for a friend to pick up the vehicle for him!

During his year in Spain, the 28-year-old earned £80,000 a week as a result of the country's lenient tax regime, in which high-earning foreigners pay only 24 per cent for their first five years in the country.