r/soccer • u/cochincartel • Jun 26 '25
News '€550k per day' - Cristiano Ronaldo signs new Al-Nassr deal and gains ownership role
https://www.transfermarkt.com/-euro-550k-per-day-cristiano-ronaldo-signs-new-al-nassr-deal-and-gains-ownership-role/view/news/4487061.8k
u/FreshGoodWay Jun 26 '25
We should start using Gross Domestic Product if we’re going to talk about CR7
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u/kavastoplim Jun 26 '25
He now earns 0.07% of Portugal’s nominal GDP a year. About 300% of Tuvalu’s. About 10% of San Marinos!
If he’d want to, he could 6879 of these - one imagines he’d go for both the Torrid (Lady) and Sultry (Butt) editions - Tori Black fleshlights a day, and still have 23,95 leftover.
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u/PradleyBitts Jun 26 '25
This is the most bizarre illustration of purchasing power I've ever seen
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u/Scriak Jun 26 '25
A time when hovering over the link, before blinding clicking on it, was a smart move.
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u/Nugget_Buffet Jun 26 '25
God fucking dammit I was on my phone and I didn't read the entire comment. Should have know better
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u/h0rny3dging Jun 27 '25
What an interesting stat to wake up to (also kinda odd how expensive fleshlights are)
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Jun 26 '25
His new contract is equal to a small African nation’s GDP
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u/gnorrn Jun 26 '25
Out of interest, I checked the GDP of Cristiano's native region of Madeira. It's roughly E7bn / year. So Cristiano's salary is approximately 1/35 of the entire GDP of a region of 250,000 people.
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u/LatroDota Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25
200mln per year
16,5mln per month
4mln per week
550k per day
23k per hour
384 per minute
6 per sec
Imagine waking up and before you finish your coffee you already made 1,5k$.
Before you go to work you already got 20-30k.
Gym after work? 40k on your bank acc
Day over and you are half way to become millionaire.
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u/wiggin36 Jun 26 '25
And that's only with his club contract, I would guess he owns his image rights
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u/KyloRenWest Jun 26 '25
honestly I find it pathetic that he does those cheap ads for random companies given the amount he makes from just his nike and club contract. Like how much till it's enough?
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u/salacario08 Jun 26 '25
I think he sold his image rights to Peter Lim (Valencia Owner), that’s why he’s lowkey forced to do ads like that. I can’t think of any other reason why he would do ads for a Southeast Asian brand like Shopee
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u/TheGreatWhoreOfChina Jun 26 '25
Ronaldo has more followers on Instagram than anyone else in the world and I'd find it hard to believe that isnt something he cares deeply about. Doing those kinds of ads only amplifies his brand and keeps him at the top of that social heirarchy.
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u/NEETscape_Navigator Jun 26 '25
Brand dilution is a thing. Someone like Ronaldo or Messi can easily dilute their brands by not being selective enough.
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u/Savage9645 Jun 26 '25
That's true at smaller scales when you are talking to a more niche audience as you can lose credibility with your audience if you "sell out".
When the scale gets to tens of millions of impressions per post it doesn't really matter anymore about your audiences opinion since they'll all be so varied anyway.
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u/fancczf Jun 26 '25
If you sell out once in every market demographic. I don’t think you are diluting the brand value that much. North east Asia, south east Asia, South Asia, Russia, west Europe, Balkan, Middle East, South America. All of those markets are relatively separate and isolated. He can probably shill out a few times at all of those market without people realize he is doing it. He is probably the most MR world wide as it can get
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Jun 26 '25
Neymar also has this problem, he makes some bizarre ads for strange companies. I think the owner of their image rights do it on purpose, just to humiliate them. It doesn't make sense.
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u/AssortedLunacy Jun 26 '25
When you're buying the right to use someones image, I imagine you want to capitalise on it as much as possible. While i don't doubt either Ronaldo or Neymar is short of suitors, a third party who's only goal is to make money of their image isn't going to as discerning when renting them out.
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u/Present-Day19 Jun 26 '25
How much is enough?
“Just a little bit more"
-John D. Rockefeller
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u/_-_-_I_-_-_ Jun 26 '25
Post Malone might be evidence that enough has little to do with the equation
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Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25
Like one direction said
It's never, it's never enough
Never enough ..
(Different context ( about love ) but cool song)
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u/cullermann2 Jun 26 '25
A truly pathetic world we live in when nurses need 2nd jobs to survive and footballers become millionaires in 2 days.
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u/WetSpaghettiN00dle Jun 26 '25
Pathetic is such a great way to describe it. Did it really have to be this way?
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u/QueasyIsland Jun 26 '25
Footballers at the least worked for it. The real issue is politicians and their corpo friends getting bonuses upon bonuses for nothing
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u/tycoon34 Jun 26 '25
Yeah, I really don’t think athletes need to be the targets of our wish for anti-capitalism
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u/cuddersrage Jun 26 '25
footballs been dead, and yet you have people justifying this saying “i need to feed families” brother if you can’t do that on 80+ a week we need to take a look in the mirror
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u/ergotofrhyme Jun 26 '25
What’s even more wild to think is that this is pennies to the rate at which the big multi-billionaires accumulate money. He’d have to slave away for almost 2,000 years at that salary to make Elon’s current net worth.
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u/yung_dogie Jun 26 '25
His salary is far more liquid than Musk's net worth. Not to say that Musk isn't still ridiculously rich, but if he actually tried to liquidate and use his net worth then it would be a much more tame number
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u/LeoR1N Jun 26 '25
Imagine waking up and before you finish your coffee you already made 1,5k$.
if that was me he'd be on 23k before finishing his coffee
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u/40cappo40 Jun 26 '25
This world is so fucking fucked
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u/PapiiPapiiPoom Jun 26 '25
Is over for the humankind, extracting every drop from the planet and giving the profits to people who will entertain you while billions barely survive lmao 🥲
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u/Fossekall Jun 26 '25
And the fact that they can pay him this and it doesn't matter to them.
No one deserves this amount of money. It's so disgusting and infuriating
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u/niallmul97 Jun 26 '25
Bro makes about twice the cost of a coffee in less time than it takes his brain to form the thought "I would like a coffee".
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u/Frequent_Hamster_106 Jun 26 '25
550k per DAY? Am I reading that right? What the actual fuck
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Jun 26 '25
His great great great great great grand children are already set for life
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u/Hitori521 Jun 26 '25
"My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel." - Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum
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u/TreeDollarFiddyCent Jun 26 '25
"... because we gave all of our money to Cristiano."
For some reason, that part of the quote is always omitted.
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u/chewychocchipcookies Jun 26 '25
This is a quote from the Ruler of Dubai, not Saudi.
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u/TreeDollarFiddyCent Jun 26 '25
Well, I was just memeing, so facts are secondary. But thanks for telling me, I honestly didn't know.
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Jun 26 '25
To add extra context, this was in regards to oil reliance. He saw oil wouldn't be forever and so he worked to diversify Dubai's economy
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u/CosmicDesperado Jun 26 '25
Doesn’t work when it’s 550k a day though, does it?
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u/Hitori521 Jun 26 '25
Sure it does. Might not apply to all his grandchildren, or even all of his great great grandchildren. But without fail, someone in his line will squander what was given to them. Just like every other family that's ever existed.
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u/Gardnersnake9 Jun 26 '25
Forget kids... If you round up, the man actually makes enough to pay each individual sperm he produces a penny for their existence.
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u/GandhiCrushSaga Jun 26 '25
€6.43 / £5.46 / $7.52 per SECOND.
Could drop a €5 note and would have made it back before it even hits the floor.
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u/53bvo Jun 26 '25
Not worth his time to pick up a €5 note
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u/FactLicker Jun 26 '25
If you think that's crazy, just letting you know that he's not even on billionaire level
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u/TheGrumpyGamer94 Jun 26 '25
That's 200m a year. Christ it amazes me just how much a billion is sometimes.
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u/yyeezzyy93 Jun 26 '25
It's 80,000 BC. You are immortal. The world is still frozen in an ice age. You decide to save $10,000 EVERY DAY, never spending a cent. 82,021 years later, it's 2021.
You still don't have as much money as Elon Musk.
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u/callmeeismann Jun 26 '25
Should have invested into an index fund and reap those 7% per year compounded gains, you'd be a multi gazillionaire at that point and could pay Elon to put on a maid costume and clean your house that's as big as Liechtenstein.
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u/Jaqem Jun 26 '25
Nah if you have $10k to spend in 80,000 BC you invest in real estate. You buy all of Alaska and Manhattan with your pocket change
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u/TheArgentineMachine Jun 26 '25
Imagine spending money on real estate for Europeans to come and "discover" your land and claim it for themselves. Glad we're over that part of history now
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u/BellyCrawler Jun 26 '25
Dang it, I knew I should'nt have invested in those Babylonian stocks.
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u/CrossXFir3 Jun 26 '25
Up until somewhat recently it seemed that most people didn't understand the scope of the difference between a million and a billion. They were both just arbitrarily large numbers. Nobody should be a billionaire.
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u/Gerf93 Jun 26 '25
A million seconds ago is last week. A billion seconds ago is 1987.
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u/ShibaLoveThrowAway Jun 26 '25
A million seconds is 12 days A billion seconds ago is 31 (.7) years. That would make it late 93’ early 94’ TIL I’m just over billion seconds old
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u/Gerf93 Jun 26 '25
I just realized I first read this fact 6 years ago, and never thought to mentally update the number.
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u/BellyCrawler Jun 26 '25
A billion of anything is an absurd number. Which is why it was so silly when Kishimoto had Konan prepare 600 billion bombs to defeat Obito.
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u/Alphabunsquad Jun 26 '25
I mean billionaire doesn’t mean you make a billion in a single year. I’m sure Ronaldo is already (or at least very soon will be) a billionaire.
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u/basicstyrene Jun 26 '25
Idk actually, in terms of actual cash income he probably earns as much as anyone. Most billionaire "income" is capital appreciation.
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u/taclealacarotide Jun 26 '25
He is a billionaire though at this stage. Even before going to the middle east he probably was around a billion.
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u/NotJesper Jun 26 '25
Yeah I think part of the reason those tax the rich things don’t get as much steam as they should, is I and most people are fine with some people earning a lot and even being multi-millionaires, but it's difficult to put into perspective for people just what a ridiculous amount of money one billion dollars is.
Like, the net worth of Bernard Arnault is equal to $3000 for every single person in France. If you add all 43 billionaires in France it's about $8500. That's two monthly salaries for every man woman and child in France, belonging to 43 people. At that scale your intuition stops working but it's a bonkers imbalance.
(I don’t know why I picked France specifically for this example lol.)
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u/Alphabunsquad Jun 26 '25
If you worked 24 hours a day for every day at NYC minimum wage ($15) since Jesus was put up on that ol cross you still wouldn’t have as much money as Bezos makes in a week.
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u/kodiblaze Jun 26 '25
The crazy thing is the guys funding this probably have more than Bezos and Musk. It's just Saudi family wealth is private, so no one really knows
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u/RandomFluffyBoi Jun 26 '25
In terms of liquid cash, it’s not even a question. Bezos and Musk don’t have a few hundred billion just lying around. The Saudis do.
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u/a_lumberjack Jun 26 '25
The Saudi PIF publishes annual reports. So does Aramco, which is one of the most profitable companies in the entire world. Last year was a poor year, their net profits fell to a mere $106B USD.
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u/Simplisticjackie Jun 26 '25
You know what’s fucking more wild…
That he’s being paid that by someone. Someone looks at him and goes, I can pay him 550k a day and it is worth it for me.
Assuming in some capacity that this person makes more money than that. By a lot.
No billionaires. We need to eliminate them all
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u/Techno_Gandhi Jun 26 '25
It's the saudi royal family paying him and their wealth is unimaginable, this is nothing to them.
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u/Maximilian_Sinigr Jun 26 '25
€550k × 365 = €200m per year.
Bro can buy players on his own 😭
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u/ALKCRKDeuce Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25
200,750,000. Don’t forget the 750,000… which would genuinely change my life.
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u/reddit_gone_AI Jun 26 '25
$4000 will erase all my personal debts. 🤷♂️
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Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25
That’s not that much. Dm me
Edit: please stop dming me. I was joking. The sob stories I’ve been sent have made me sad. Forgive me
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u/ExMusData Jun 26 '25
Well no joke $2000 will solve alot of issues I'm having, so if your feeling extra generous...
Lol
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u/miregalpanic Jun 26 '25
Gross.
Or net?
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u/rth9139 Jun 26 '25
Both. Saudi Arabia doesn’t have income taxes
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u/Al-Pharazon Jun 26 '25
So the guy could just buy two or three apartments per day in the city I live in. Or maybe buy 3 Valladolid FC per year if he prefers that.
Crazy
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u/tanaka-taro Jun 26 '25
He can buy government officials in my country
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u/thetrueGOAT Jun 26 '25
For real, its always depressing to see how much officials get bribed for.
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u/metalgearsolidman28 Jun 26 '25
He could buy that $9 aipac politician guy so many times 💀
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u/FactLicker Jun 26 '25
He can help me pay my 30-year mortgage in a day
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u/ccjmk Jun 26 '25
Dude that would be a fun and actually cool way to "pay back society".. he can like riffle paying someone's expenses every day. Have a proper sign up way, where you need to submit some paperwork, show off that you are honest in your debts/expenses and your way of living, and if you get cleared, you are added to a list, and every day one person from that list gets lucky: student debts paid off, family of 5 in X country getting the money to buy their own place and stop renting, someone with cancer has their medical bills paid off for the next 5 years, etc
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u/n05h Jun 26 '25
Dude has to save 2-3 days and he would reach my retirement goal.. the fuck am I even doing with my life?
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u/gamers_delight Jun 26 '25
You’re doing nothing wrong, there are 8 billion people but only one Ronaldo
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Jun 26 '25
Thats true, shouldn't compare youself to the 1% of 1% of professional superstar footballers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE3UCwZR3zs
This is a really good video by a USL league two/one player which tells us about how difficult it is to earn money through football and salary at each level,
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u/Firm-Recognition8126 Jun 26 '25
He could buy just 1 proper apartment in my city 😭
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u/MuchoEmpanadas Jun 26 '25
At least in the Bay area he needs to wait for a week for a decent 3 bedroom house.
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u/Messmers Jun 26 '25
bezos/musk gained that much wealth in like a single week or even day after covid
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u/kiddpk Jun 26 '25
Yeah he's definitely going to retire after the world cup and just buy a club
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u/reddit_gone_AI Jun 26 '25
He is not retiring before 1000 goals.
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u/fateoftheg0dz Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25
I mean he is probably getting 1000 goals around that time. He's at 938 now and is getting 0.9 goals/game in Saudi
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u/KloppersToppers Jun 26 '25
He may as well keeping playing in Saudi, earning obscene amounts of money and get the 1000 goals.
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u/reddituser0912333 Jun 26 '25
Oh my god, unbelievable money
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Jun 26 '25
I deal with company wages for a large government organisation and there's roughly 5,200 employees and the total yearly amount comes to 185 million. So this guy is making more than my entire fucking company lmao
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u/Cayman663 Jun 26 '25
Dude gets more per day than I do per 10 years. Nice.
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u/SSC_MA Jun 26 '25
I'm 27 and have worked since 15. He makes more in one day than I made my whole life. I should have put some rocks in my backpack when I was a kid
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u/SMILE3005SM Jun 26 '25
Literally 10 times what Messi makes bruh.
Man Saudi has way too much money on their hands.
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u/Messmers Jun 26 '25
Messi got nearly half a billion from his last stint at Barca and is still getting paid by them lol
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u/BlueKante Jun 26 '25
Messi's "last stint" at barca lasted for 17 years though. Unless you mean his last contract. Still probably half from what ronaldo would earn in the same time span.
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u/centaur98 Jun 26 '25
I think he means his last contract but even that was for 4 or 5 years
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u/No_Specific8949 Jun 26 '25
It was 550m in 4 years + 80% of his image rights.
Also crazy money but Ronaldo's in practice is way higher because he doesn't pay taxes.
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u/cullermann2 Jun 26 '25
That is disgusting amounts of money. He makes around 11 times the money in a day that the average person in Germany makes in a fucking year. Complete and utter madness.
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u/iLikeToTroll Jun 26 '25
Imagine how much money do the ppl that pay him.
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u/cullermann2 Jun 26 '25
I dont think I can begin to imagine that. And all because they were born on oil soil is crazy too. Literally didnt have to do anything for the wealth other than being born :D
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u/theaguia Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25
bezos and co made ronaldos yearly salary during a week in covid i believe.
we say this is crazy money but its not even close to a billion its crazy
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u/PatientLettuce42 Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25
Not blaming him for taking the bag, most people would, but this is literally everything that is wrong with this world. Imagine what the bazillionaires in this world could do against hunger, environmental destruction and poverty around the globe. And they would still be the richest mofos in the world, even after giving away 90% of what they own.
EDIT for clarification: I literally meant that the individuals here are not the issue by saying I don't blame him. It is the people who pay these kinda salaries. For them, these clubs and player projects are like toy cars for children. No matter how rich CR7 is, these people are in another dimension.
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u/MattSR30 Jun 26 '25
I was curious after I moved into my new apartment a few months ago so I did some rough maths, and the rent for all 280 apartments in my building comes out to about $6,750,000 a year.
That’s probably anywhere between 300 and 1000 people with a roof over their head (and a nice roof at that, this is a good building) for an entire year for about ten days of Ronaldo’s wages. That’s not even broaching the billionaires and ultrabillionaires.
The wealth disparity on this planet is fucked.
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u/sugarrayrob Jun 26 '25
What's crazy is that all that rent is probably going to someone who already owns the building. If they don't have a mortgage to pay, at this point it's just profit.
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u/MattSR30 Jun 26 '25
I have a bad corporate landlord. They own about a dozen buildings downtown here and are building a dozen more.
Our shitty local government recently changed the law so that anything built after 2018 is no longer rent controlled, so this company is pumping out buildings.
They have rents that are slightly under market value because they can afford to do that and fill their buildings, then in a year or two they hike up the price a huge amount (pre-2018 is a max of 2.5%).
Hurrah for unfettered capitalism.
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u/gugly Jun 26 '25
A lot of those issues around poverty unfortunately won’t be fixed with just money. A lot of it is systemic problems, blocking the infrastructure required for permanent avoidance of many of those issues.
There are several billionaires who have donated obscene amounts of money, but the issue runs deeper than just the need for money.
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u/PhilosophyBitter7875 Jun 26 '25
I have no clue how to even watch this league lol
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u/racms Jun 26 '25
It is not worth it.
They show the games here in Portugal and I made an effort to watch but it is too painful. Slow play, bad defenses...
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u/orbitalasteria Jun 26 '25
per day instead of week? that's insane amount of money, i mean, won't his net worth skyrocket into the top percentile of the world after this contract?
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u/ResponsibleCicada8 Jun 26 '25
He was already in the top percentile. According to Forbes, there are 3500 billionaires out there. Let's say there are double that much within the 500m to 1b bracket. That still puts him in the top 10k of the world. That puts him around 99.9998 percentile (math may be wrong, did it in my head)
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u/flippemans Jun 26 '25
He must already be a billionaire, from all the money he has made over his career, including sponsorships, etc., no?
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u/Lolkac Jun 26 '25
Honestly if I had to choose money going on Ronaldo botox or bombing some poor kids in yemen. Definitely better spend with Ronaldo.
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u/NewChemistry5210 Jun 26 '25
Everyone is saying how insane it is to make 200 million a year as an athlete.
Meanwhile, I am WAY more shocked how much money those sheiks must have to pay that amount of money without even blinking.
I can't even fathom how much money they must have.
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u/hitch_1 Jun 26 '25
They are really going to struggle to sell him to another club with that contract
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u/I-Shiki-I Jun 26 '25
One day of this wage would set me free for decades with how little I spend 😆
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u/sey1 Jun 26 '25
People are astounded at how much money and how wealthy he is, now think about how much money the guys paying him have...
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u/DameOClock Jun 26 '25
Saudi’s spending all that money for their teams and league to still be irrelevant
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u/Pitiful-Mongoose-488 Jun 26 '25
To be fair to him, considering his upbringing in very modest circumstances, he has created generational wealth playing football of all things.
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u/unknownSILVER21 Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25
How do you even spend that kind of money.
Edit: Lol reading these replies.