Since the last season, the richest football players made over 100 million US dollars, so I will show you exactly how much the top 10 earned over the last season, you might already know who the top 2 are
Their exact figures will blow your mind, These numbers have just been released by Forbes few days ago, so this article should be the only article about the topic right now.
1. Lionel Messi
Ever since Ronaldo joined Real Madrid in 2009, the two have constantly been compared.
At least on the money front, Messi was clearly ahead last season: Thanks to his absolutely crazy salary of 92 million US dollars at Barcelona, Messi reached total earnings of 126 million in the last season alone.
2.Cristiano Ronaldo
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Ronaldo is the most popular athlete in the world, as evidenced by his absolutely enormous number of Instagram followers at 238 million, he is the person with the highest following on Instagram. The only reason he loses out against Messi in total earnings is that Messis club salary at Barcelona is out of this world.
3. Neymar
At his total earnings of 96 million US dollars, the Brazilian earns over two times as much as his teammate Mbappe. Widely seen as the third-best player in the world behind Ronaldo and Messi, Neymar left Barcelona for Paris in 2017 on a record-breaking transfer fee of 263 million US dollars the reason was that he did not want to be in Messis shadow anymore.
4. Kylian Mbappe
At his current age of just 22 years, Mbappe already earns a total of 42 million US dollars a year. That is massive But his huge salary is earned for sure: he scored the most goals in the last 2 season of Ligue 1 and he already won the World Cup 3 years ago.
5. Mohamed Salah
Though the salary of the Liverpool player is the same as Lewandowskis at 24 million US dollars, the Egyptian also earns massive endorsements of 13 million a year, which puts his total earnings to an impressive 37 million US dollars, which makes him the best-paid player in the Premier League.
The reason for his huge endorsement deals is that Salah is probably the most famous Egyptian on the planet.
