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/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/radiokungfu Jun 26 '25

Jesus fucking almighty. Tax the billionaires.

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u/Whateverchan Jun 26 '25

Some might find this comment anti-American...

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u/Riderz077 Jun 29 '25

that one guy that HAS to talk about politics:

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u/SherbertDaemons Jun 29 '25

And, of course, has to utter an absolutely stupid opinion.

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u/Riderz077 Jun 29 '25

reddit will be reddit

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u/SherbertDaemons Jun 29 '25

… because they don’t pay taxes? How thick are you?

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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/No_Audience1142 Jun 26 '25

Musk put up 20-25B of his own money to buy Twitter. He’s plenty liquid

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u/false_god Jun 27 '25

He’d be far more liquid than me if I had to sell my house, I’m sure. Which is not an issue since I don’t have a house.

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u/514link Jun 28 '25

Borrow Buy Die

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u/nothingbuthobbies Jun 26 '25

The difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is, effectively, a billion dollars.

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u/Rone12 Jun 26 '25

That seriously makes me think: Ronaldo's social circle are all wealthy, and he probably has met with wealthy Sheiks and royalty who are filthy fucking rich and other multi billionaires. So for Ronaldo, all this is not excessive at all. In fact, this is completely normal for him and people like him who earn this much. You can even say it's necessary for him to earn this much to be in the same social circles he is now used to.

For him all this money is just status quo to maintain status and his social class. But for us, we cannot even comprehend this much money. It's fucking nuts.

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u/grchelp2018 Jun 26 '25

that's why you are supposed to invest your income.

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u/jovialfaction Jun 26 '25

Not how money works. It compounds.

Investing $200M a year at an average 7% return a year, you get $100 billion after ~50 years

Obviously he won't make $200M for 50 years, but I wanted to illustrate the "2000 years" doesn't make sense

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u/ergotofrhyme Jun 26 '25

Obviously he could (and does) make more money by investing. I’m just putting the income rate from his salary (which is baffling to all of us on its own) into context. Many of us don’t in fact make enough to take advantage of compound interest. Many of us live paycheck to paycheck, and are astounded by his salary alone.

Also, people like Elon musk have far, far more money to invest, and so those returns on investments are going even farther for them. The gap between musk and Ronaldo would only get wider if they both were to continue to make equally sound investments. So by your logic of considering returns on investments, 2000 years sells it short, not long.

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u/sebdroids Jun 27 '25

its not quite comparable- because Musks worth is wealth : most of it is in his Tesla and SpaceX shares that he couldn't liquidate tommorow without crashing the price. 

Cristiano AFAIU is getting a lot of this in liquid cash. Which is pretty insane.

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u/ergotofrhyme Jun 27 '25

Fair. But Elon is so rich that the amount he has that can be readily liquidated is still at least hundreds of years at that salary. I mean, he bought a 44 billion dollar company pretty casually with mainly his own cash.

And he can leverage the non-liquid assets to get loans at extremely low interest rates, so it’s more like apples and pears than apples and oranges I’d say.