For many months, there has been a lot of talk about the future of Cristiano Ronaldo. At the beginning of the year, Portuguese media reported that the legendary footballer was not satisfied with Al-Nassr, which has not yet provided him with a team capable of fighting effectively for the Saudi Arabian championship, and only that interests him. His contract expires at the end of the current season, and his club was ready for anything so that only Ronaldo stays for longer. It was even said that in addition to even a higher salary, The Portuguese would receive 5 percent. shares in the club.
Ronaldo will get another increase? And without it he wins through a heavy knockout
Has Al-Nassr actually decided on something like that? We do not know this, but it seems that they managed to convince the footballer, because a few days ago the Italian journalist Nicolo Schira reported that Ronaldo would extend the contract with Al-Nassr to June 2026 and with the option of extending by a year. There is no doubt that such a thing would be associated with another increase, and without this Portuguese is the best -paid athlete in the world.
Curry, Fury or Messi can look at the sky at most
This is due to the list of Sportico, which specializes in sports business. Local journalists have created a TOP 100 list for the best -paid athletes. Ronaldo took first place with a gigantic amount of $ 260 million, of which 215 million comes “from the field” (i.e. under the contract with Al-Nassr), and 45 million are sponsorship agreements.
The Portuguese for the second year in a row absolutely knocked out the competition. The second place was taken by the basketball player Golden State Warriors Stephen Curry, who in 2024 came to the account $ 153.8 million, which is over 100 million less than Ronaldo. The podium was completed by the boxer Tyson Fury (147 million). In addition to Cristiano, there were four players in TOP 10: Leo Messi (4th place – 135 million), Neymar (6th place – 133 million), Karim Benzema (8th place – 116 million) and Kylian Mbappe (9th place – 9th place – 110 million). The top 100 has no place for a single sportswoman or for any Polish representative.
TOP 10 of the highest paid athletes for 2024 by Sportico:
- Cristiano Ronaldo (football) – $ 260 million
- Stephen Curry (basketball) – $ 153.8 million
- Tyson Fury (boxing) – $ 147 million
- Leo Messi (football) – $ 135 million
- Lebron James (basketball) – $ 133.2 million
- Neymar (football) – $ 133 million
- Oleksandr Usyk (boxing) – $ 122 million
- Karim Benzema (football) – $ 116 million
- Kylian Mbappe (football) – $ 110 million
- Jon Rahm (Golf) – $ 105.8 million