Cristiano Ronaldo will play for Al-Nassr in Saudi Arabia from January 2023.
This is what he assures exclusively this Monday, December 5 Brandfrom Spain.
The contract that will unite the player of the Portugal team, still competing in the Qatar 2022 World Cup, will be for two and a half years, until mid-2025.
Ronaldo stopped being a Manchester United player in November, days before the World Cup began, after a controversial interview in which he criticized the English club’s strategy.
“The main argument for leaving European football behind and becoming part of a football adventure in Arabia has undoubtedly been economic,” says Marca. “Cristiano Ronaldo will be the Saudi image abroad, in a nation that every day seeks to have a greater role in the world of sports.”
According to the same medium, the hiring of the Portuguese is a real “question of State”.
The contract includes a file for a little less than 100 million dollars and another million for economic incentives from advertising, which places him as the highest paid athlete on the planet.
The full figure for Cristiano Ronaldo’s relationship with Saudi Arabia’s Al-Nassr will be around $200 million per season, says Marca.
The 200 million leave behind the ties that unite Lionel Messi and Neymar with the PSG of France, who buy 75 and 70 million, respectively, per season.
Even if you compare the figure with the highest paid players in the US, they are all far from the numbers that CR7 has agreed with the Arab club.
Cristiano Ronaldo will play in Arabia
The team that Cristiano Ronaldo is going to is far from the world’s first planes, in third-order football.
It is clear that this is a step back in sports, but at 37, his performance is no longer the same.
In fact, for his game in Qatar he is receiving criticism even in Portugal, where he is the greatest historical idol.
At Al-Nassr you will find other figures with an important past in world football, such as French coach Rudi García and defender Álvaro González.
Also playing is Colombian goalkeeper David Ospina, who left Napoli to agree to go play in Saudi Arabia.
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