History is being made before our eyes. It’s a signature [pod kontraktem – przyp. red.]Which will not only inspire our club to further success, but our league, our nation and future generations, boys and girls, to be the best version of themselves. Welcome Cristiano to your new home,” said Al Nasr’s official post on Twitter and Instagram.
There has been talk of 37-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo moving to Saudi Arabia for several weeks. On November 22, the player’s current club Manchester United He announced that he had terminated his contract. This was facilitated by an interview in which the football player criticized the current authorities and the coach of the English club – Eric Ten Haga.
So, during the World Cup in Qatar, Ronaldo was without a club and had a free card in his hands. It was up to him to continue playing. Manchester United will not receive a single pound from victory.
Cristiano Ronaldo will earn a lot of money
According to the media, the contract is valid until June 2025. Ronaldo is expected to earn 200 million euros per season. Marketing earnings are also included in this amount.
No other footballer can count on such a high salary, not even the new world champion Lionel Messi from Paris Saint-Germain. In May 2022, Forbes published a list of the highest-paid athletes in the world. The Argentine made $133 million between May 2021 and May 2022, of which $75 million was paid by the French club. The rest is advertising revenue. Cristiano Ronaldo is third with $115 million. ($60 million salary from Manchester United and $50 million from investments and advertising). After moving to victory, Ronaldo is supposed to jump to the top spot in the standings. At least among the players.
“I am looking forward to discovering a new football competition in another country,” said Cristiano Ronaldo on the Saudi club’s social media.
Ronaldo is an ambassador for the 2030 World Cup
Saudi Arabia, together with Greece and Egypt, wants to organize the World Cup in 2030. Cristiano Ronaldo may become an ambassador for the tournament and lobby for the Saudis to win the World Cup. It will be another tournament to be held in the Middle East. In 2022, players will compete in Qatar, and in 2026 they will be playing at venues in the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
As we wrote on money.pl, Saudi Arabia wants to strengthen its position in the Middle East and around the world by sponsoring sports. The Saudis are pumping billions of dollars. In F1, esports, golf, Dakar Rally, boxing, chess, horse racing and football (Buy Newcastle United).
Ronaldo in victory
After 10 rounds, Al-Nasr has 23 points and is the runner-up of the Saudi League. Ronaldo’s new club lost two points to Al-Shabab Al-Riyadh, where Polish actor Grzygorz Krechowiak plays. Al-Nasr is the Saudi champion nine times.
After returning from the Qatar World Cup, where Portugal was knocked out in the quarter-finals by Morocco after a 1-0 defeat, Ronaldo moved to Madrid for a few days. He trained there at the training center real madridthe team he represented in 2009-2018.
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