Saudi Arabia has become a new hotbed of world football stars.
Cristiano Ronaldo’s path is being followed by many well-known European football players, who are being offered staggering salaries.
Undoubtedly, the Portuguese star is currently the highest paid with a stratospheric salary of nearly 200 million euros per year, while the newest transfer, Karim Benzema, who ended his experience at Real Madrid to complete in the Saudi Pro League.
The third on the list is the former Chelsea footballer, N’Golo Kante, and the fourth is his former teammate, Kalidou Koulibaly.
Lionel Messi could become the highest paid player in the world, but the Argentinian star rejected the offer with a salary of hundreds of millions. /Express newspaper/
The top 10 looks like this (annual salary amounts are shown)
Cristiano Ronaldo (Al-Nasr) – £173 million
Karim Benzema (Al-Ittihad) – £172 million
Ngolo Kante (Al-Ittihad) – £86.2 million
Kalidou Coulibaly (Al-Hilal) – £30 million
Ruben Neves (Al-Hilal) – £16 million
Ever Banega (Al-Shabaab) – £9.1 million
Matheus Pereira (Al-Wahda) – £5.5m
Anderson Taliska (Al-Nasr) – £5.17 million
Ahmed Hegazi (Al-Ittihad) – £5.01m
Moussa Marega (Al-Hilal) – £4.28 million.
