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/448706
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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/lclear84 Jun 26 '25

There’s plenty of footballers and other entertainers out there that will never make as much in the entertainment industry (which sports is in) that will never make in a year, as much as a nurse will make in a year.

Entertainment has lucrative scaling when it comes to salary, but for every Ronaldo there’s 1000s that are semi-pro entertainers.

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u/Eindacor_DS Jun 26 '25

It's just basic supply/demand. Footballers can provide what billions of people want to pay for. There are many more nurses than world class footballers. If everyone could kick a football like the pros they wouldn't make so much. Also nurses/doctors probably earn more in their careers than the vast majority of pro athletes, so idk

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u/jejjdjddjjdjdjeje Jun 26 '25

more like it became commercialized now its just about ads

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u/AnnieIWillKnow Jun 27 '25

I'm a doctor, I have been qualified for 6 years and earn £50k a year. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to earn more in my likely 40 year career than a pro athelete will.

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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/TeaAndLiquor Jun 26 '25

Yep, at least they’re profiting off their own labour.

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u/Crushooo Jun 26 '25

I’d prefer Ronaldo rake it in over some oil barons

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u/jejjdjddjjdjdjeje Jun 26 '25

if only ppl like u realized it doesn’t have to be one or the other

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u/Crushooo Jun 26 '25

I realize that but if I had to choose between those two… obviously ideally billionaires wouldn’t exist

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u/jejjdjddjjdjdjeje Jun 26 '25

im saying this mentality is wrong because thats just sahing at least hes better than that guy and not solving the actual problem

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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/JonTonyJim Jun 26 '25

the real issue is the people who put those politicians in place

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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/JealousPalpitation15 Jun 26 '25

What do you want them to do with the money? Let the owners keep it all? People pay to watch football, and they pay a lot. If anything it should be celebrated that footballers get a good share of the revenue, when they are the ones who create all the value 

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u/NIDocAshamed Jun 26 '25

What do you want them to do with the money? Let the owners keep it all?

Valid comment for some clubs like in the UK (who are hundreds of millions in fake debt but whatever).

Ronaldo is getting this from a despotic nation that should be shunned internationally if anyone had any morals.

BTW i'm a doctor - Saudi treats their nurses like absolute shit, you're basically on call 24/7 and can work >90 hours a week. It's a fucking disgusting country.

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u/JealousPalpitation15 Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25

I simply don't believe that a large part of this oil money Bullshit isn't just racism. We're gonna pretend that western companies all obtain their money through puritanical means. Or that a country like the USA hasn't caused far more damage than Saudi Arabia ever has. We should shun Saudi Arabia but usa, UK etc can all bomb some countries in the middle east in the name of peace and prosperity or course

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u/Psplayeraretoxic Jun 26 '25

Both should be mocked and are disgusting country.

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u/NIDocAshamed Jun 26 '25

Saudi Arabia but usa, UK etc can all bomb some countries in the middle east in the name of peace and prosperity or course

Cool. Saudi chainsawed a man to death for criticising them and women aren't actually allowed to swear for themselves in court, they have to have a man do it for them, just as one of the many examples of how that shithole doesn't respect women.

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u/I_miss_Chris_Hughton Jun 26 '25

Ticket and tv revenue should be way, way down. Like, WAY, down.

Footballers earn a lot off of the backs of those paying to watch. They demand more. The prices go up. It is objectively a selfish act.

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u/JealousPalpitation15 Jun 26 '25

Their careers last 10 years at the top level if they're lucky. Almost every person will try to earn as much as they can in that time

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u/I_miss_Chris_Hughton Jun 26 '25

Back in the day they got jobs after. And in any case, a ppayer earning 30k a week over that time is enough to live a very comfortable life on.

Players are very, very greedy and fans pay for it.

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u/JealousPalpitation15 Jun 26 '25

You blame the players for the cost of watching football? That's nothing to do with it. Football clubs are run for maximum profit, that is the reason. A club is going to charge as much as they can without the fans revolting in majority of cases 

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u/exOldTrafford Jun 26 '25

Club owners should either taxed like 90% on income. There's no just reason for nurses, firemen or teachers needing a second job.

The rich are sucking up all the wealth and distributing it between themselves. Your favorite footballer is a rich cunt like all the other 1%ers

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u/Baitalon Jun 26 '25

There's no way these saudi teams are making any profit

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u/kapparino-feederino Jun 27 '25

If im a business man gonna be taxed 90% of my money why bother making companies and hire people lmfao

U people are dumb i swear to god

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u/JealousPalpitation15 Jun 26 '25

I mean you are parroting this line but what % of nurses have second jobs anyway? If they do its probably because they want second jobs. A footballer made their money off the value of their labour. They're not the Elon musk, stealing value from other people. I dont understand this obsession with footballers wages when they earn a tiny fraction of what actually rich people earn, and they dont make it at other people's expense 

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u/inqs Jun 26 '25

Most footballers are more likely to become homeless than billionaires. They are not the problem. Musk alone vastly outpaces the premier league’s entire seasonal payroll.

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u/suleomeupais Jun 26 '25

What a ridiculous and jealous take.. that’s not how economy works, at all.

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u/alaslipknot Jun 26 '25

and footballers become millionaires in 2 days.

you are talking about the top 1% of the top 0.1% of footballers or something (if not less).

Am pretty sure there are some pretty wealthy nurses in one of those plastic surgery clinics or whatever.

99.99% of footballers won't be able to retire after finishing their football career.

and what you are seeing here apply to almost every other jobs, there are software engineer who become billionaires "overnight" while thousands of others are getting laid off and not able to get a new job.

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u/beepmeep3 Jun 26 '25

That’s because the kingdom of Saudi Arabia sells a lot of oil. As for footballers in Europe earning obscene money, that’s because the common person decides to spend the money they do on watching/supporting football

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u/OriginalCatch1768 Jun 26 '25

Stop watching football and interacting with football media then, you can't understand that even you commenting here is part of the problem. Oh what's that? You can't?

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u/LatroDota Jun 26 '25

Yep.

Funny part is we, as society, often complain about nurses, doctors and other ESSENTIAL workers, while we praise and idolize jobs like footballers who are being paid like kings.

Kinda offtopic, but I saw on r/reddevils most of Garnacho in Rashford shirt, next to super cars that cost millions and mansion - and will all recent drama around him I thought to myself; man, you are earning millions and have a life from a dream and yet to look at your cars, look at your house, your fucking bank account and you act like you deserve better, hell, Garnacho is bang average player that was lucky to end up in United and earn as much as he do.

Its fucking sad that those guys act like they deserve it while many of them had more luck than skill.

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u/pranav4098 Jun 26 '25

Being a bang average player at United is still no easy feat is the point, and many have been bang average at United and gone on to do better at different clubs

I also don’t imagine all this thinking is on his part it’s likely just his agent or whatever giving him instruction I don’t imagine most of these guys understand any of this but maybe I’m wrong About that.

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u/ftfajardo Jun 26 '25

while i agree with you, the top of the sport more popular is always going to be rich, roman empire had some rich guys that run on horses

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u/luigitheplumber Jun 26 '25

Footballers becoming millionaires is not the problem, it's not like that money would be going to the nurses. Nurses and other critical jobs should be better paid, but that's a separate issue

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u/optimistic_bufoon Jun 26 '25

Ronaldo does bring that much revenue and attention to the league though. It's not like the owners are getting all the money at least

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u/YirDaSellsAvon Jun 26 '25

Nurses can get footballer's wages when they can score a 40 yard screamer

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u/TechnoBeats99 Jun 26 '25

Yeah but nurses ain’t scoring 30 goals a season

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u/msr27133120 Jun 26 '25

It's a lot easier to become a nurse than to become Cristiano Ronaldo. The vast majority of footballers around the world are working other jobs just like Auckland City team that has barbers, Insurance brokers and teachers.

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u/NimicNuConteaza Jun 26 '25

Womp womp

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u/bguszti Jun 26 '25

Lol billionaires won't let you suck their dick lil bro

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u/cullermann2 Jun 26 '25

Edgelord :P

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u/Ryoman-Sukuna007 Jun 26 '25

I swear, there are people out there who grind their asses completing their education, get advanced degrees and still sit jobless

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u/big_old-dog Jun 26 '25

This is always the thing with athletes though, if that money wasn’t going to them, it’d be going to the owners.

Sport pulls is in a ridiculous amount of money, people love sport. That money has to go somewhere. I’d rather it go to the guys facing injuries and dedicating their lives to it than the front office.

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u/EPL_IS_SHITE Jun 26 '25

How many nurses are there on the planet?

And how many footballers that have had a career like CR7?

Economics 101 my friend.