Ronaldo & Messi wages: How much do Man Utd & PSG stars get paid?

It’s not rocket science to know that Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo earn a pretty penny, let’s face it.

Nobody is under the illusion that perhaps the two greatest players to ever grace the game are settling for the minimum wage, and desperately counting down to the month’s end for their wage slip.

With the money in football these days, it’s understandable that Messi and Ronaldo command gargantuan salaries, wherever they go. That’s just how it works across sport, where global superstars reap the rewards of the revenue they bring.

At a glance, sieving through reported mega wages and contracts can be a numbing task, considering we see so much of it. But when we actually stop for a moment and try to comprehend those earnings, that’s when things get a little sickening.

Amid Barcelona‘s financial ruin, Messi agreed to take an incredible pay cut on his mega contract at Camp Nou, but even that wasn’t enough to ensure they could comply with regulations and re-sign their greatest player ever.

As a result, Messi moved to Paris Saint-Germain in 2021, who are just about the only club in Europe’s top five leagues who could shoulder Messi’s salary demands without worry.

Juventus put all of their eggs in the Ronaldo basket in 2018, in a bit to win the Champions League. But as that became increasingly unlikely to happen with each passing season, they were forced to sell the five-time Ballon d’Or winner in the same summer Messi left for Paris, as the Portugal international was proving too financially crippling.

He made an emphatic return to Manchester United where his goals have saved the Red Devils from even further embarrassment in 2021/22. But that has also come at the cost of an, as expected, major contract over two years.

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