Is it an ideal country to live in? No, especially not for the Europeans. But are they financially capable of solving monetary troubles for four generations? Absolutely. And while Cristiano Ronaldo didn’t have financial issues even before moving to Saudi Arabia, the details of his new contract reveal that staying at Al-Nassr was simply impossible to turn down. These details were published by Marca, a bit more precisely than Portugal’s A Bola the day before. They corrected their Portuguese colleagues: Ronaldo didn’t receive exactly 200,000,000 euros for one year but rather 183,000,000. Still, that’s not bad, because as Marca calculated, it comes to exactly 550,000 per day, 3,800,000 per week, or an unheard-of monthly salary of 15,250,000.Ronaldo to remain in Saudi Arabia with a new contractThe highest-paid footballer on the planet, indeed, but that’s not all. Saudi sheikhs decided to show Ronaldo how important he is by offering him an ownership stake. Not a large one, but significant nonetheless—five percent of the shares. That’s more than enough, considering we’re talking about one of the four biggest clubs in Saudi Arabia. Now, how much does Al-Nassr actually earn? Probably not much, considering these salaries, but they certainly open many doors. And Ronaldo—there was never any doubt about this—acts with maximum professionalism, and the Saudis have come to love him, even though Al-Nassr didn’t manage to claim the top spot. Their fierce rivals, Al-Hilal are ahead of them.”If Ronaldo were playing in Ligue 1 right now, they would eat him up”One of Ronaldo’s conditions during negotiations was that he be provided teammates capable of competing for the title. It’s clear he assessed that having stars like Sadio Mané, Marcelo Brozović, Mohamed Simakan, Bento, Talisca, Otávio, and Ângelo Gabriel alongside him wasn’t enough. And indeed, when compared to Al-Hilal, which boasts not only Mitrović and Milinković-Savić but also Kalidou Koulibaly, Rúben Neves, Renan Lodi, João Cancelo, Malcom, and the injured Neymar. Al-Nassr’s management understood the message and agreed to bring Ronaldo at least one or two reinforcements this January. Marca writes that the first could be Casemiro, with whom Ronaldo shared a locker room at both Real Madrid and Manchester United.##NAJAVA_MECA_8633318##
