“I first tried to get Messi,” he joked at a press conference (see video above). “But the question is whether Ronaldo will find it funny when he sees this,” is the tenor on Twitter. Garcia might know by tonight.
According to local media, Ronaldo would arrive today (around 9 p.m. Belgian time) in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. That has not yet been confirmed, but there is a plan ready for the presentation of the Portuguese superstar. Al-Nassr wants to introduce his star in a packed stadium – in front of 30,000 fans. That seems easy to do.
Since the club from the Middle East announced the transfer of CR7, there has been real Ronaldo madness. All shirts in the fan shop were sold out in an hour and Al-Nassr’s Instagram followers went from 940,000 to 6.2 million since the officialization of the transfer. The post in which Ronaldo poses for the first time with his new employer’s shirt has already received more than 31 million likes.
Highest paid football player ever
In other words, Ronaldo will soon get the attention he craves. And for that he is also generously compensated. In 2015, GestiFute SA, the agency that manages his finances, estimated Ronaldo’s net worth at 227 million euros. In two and a half years that will be a multiple. The best football player in the world is no longer CR7, but the Saudi Al-Nassr pays him to that status. Generous with Riyal.
Since the state contributed and no personal income tax is levied, Ronaldo can call himself the highest-paid footballer ever in the winter of his career. 200 million euros a year that is not a 200 million salary, it turns out. This is how the net wages of the big four (Messi, Neymar, Mbappé and Ronaldo) have evolved over the last 10 years:
