Ronaldo, Messi and Neymar, the highest paid footballers

This year, the football market was moving brutally, with stratospheric salary figures of ia Saudi Arabia which positioned itself as an extremely active market for players and brought big names to this sport.

Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi and Neymar Jr currently the first three places in the ranking of the highest paid footballers in the world in 2023, as revealed by Forbes magazine.

The Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, who joined Al-Nassr FC In the 2022-2023 season, he not only opened the door to the Saudi market, but broke all records with the best contract compared to all his peers. It ranks first in the chart and earns $260 million per campaign.

Lionel Messi, whowho once again climbed to second place with total earnings of $135 million, became the first player in the Major League Soccer (MLS) appear in the top ten since David Beckham in 2012.

It is in third place Brazilian Neymar Jr., which he left Paris Saint-Germain and connected with Al Hilal Saudií, with which he scored his first goal this October.

With a huge list of sponsors, from Puma to Konami and Red Bull, the soccer player from Sao Paulo earns 112 million dollars per season.

Mbappe, which dropped from number one in 2022 to number four on the current list, tops the chart for players based in Europe (he plays in Paris Saint-Germain as of 2017), with earnings of $110 million per campaign.

Karim Benzemawho last season as a Real Madrid player was not in the ‘top 10’, currently with the shield of Al Ittihad on his chest earns 106 million dollars per campaign.

Three players in Premier League Among the ten best paid are: Erling Haaland ($58 million) and Kevin De Bruyne ($39 million), both from Manchester City, and Mohamed Salah from Liverpool ($53 million).

Sadio Mané, one of the most prolific footballers in history Senegal, which is active in Al Nassrranks eighth with an income of 52 million dollars.

They follow them Harry Kanein his first season with Bayern Munich, and Robert Lewandowski, from Barcelona, ​​with an expected total of $36 million and $34 million, respectively.