This year, a new era began with regard to the destination chosen by the best or most media-conscious players of the recent era: The Saudi Arabian League and the MLSwhere contracts with salaries out of the ordinary broke the market by setting a very high bar in this ranking.
Top footballers such as Cristiano Ronaldo o Lionel Messi are still the highest paid players on the planet, although there is a new era of players who have already caught up with them in this respect.
Arabian football has four players on this list, after making a big recruitment drive for this football year following the successful case of 'The Arabian Football Association'.CR7The 'commercially successful, but unsuccessful in sporting terms.
With Messi, the situation was with immediate effect, as he made his debut at the start of the Leagues Cup and they ended up winning it, even if the Inter Miami failed to advance to the Playoffs because of poor results in the MLSwhere the Argentinian could no longer rescue them in time.
1. Cristiano Ronaldo: 260 million dollars
2. Lionel Messi: 135 million dollars
3. Neymar: 112 million dollars
4. Kylian Mbappé: 110 million dollars
5. Karim Benzema: 106 million dollars
6. Erling Haaland: $58 million
7. Mohamed Salah: $53 million
8. Sadio Mané: $52 million
9. Kevin de Bruyne: 39 million dollars
10. Harry Kane: $36 million
11. Robert Lewandowski: 34 million dollars
This ranking was done by Forbes, which includes on-field earnings for the 2023-2024 season with base salary, bonuses and image rights.
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