News from Al-Madina According to “Forbes” magazine, Kylian Mbappe, a French player for Paris Saint-Germain, has surpassed Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi to earn the most money of any football player.
Since 2014, Messi and Ronaldo have held the top spot, but Mbappe has surpassed his colleague and Manchester United star thanks to a new deal with Paris Saint-Germain.
When his deal with Saint-Germain was ready to expire at the end of the previous season, the French player’s name was connected to a transfer to Real Madrid, but in the end, he decided to prolong his contract for three years in May.
The ranking of the highest-paid athletes also takes into consideration the player’s earnings off the field. Mbappe has a number of endorsement deals, and this year, he began forming his own production company, “Zebra Valley.”
As their careers come to an end, Messi and Ronaldo placed second and third, respectively, while Neymar, a Saint-Germain star, placed fourth.
Ronaldo is joined by three other English Premier League players: Kevin De Bruyne (sixth), Erling Haaland of Manchester City (fifth), and Mohamed Salah (fifth) (10th).
Only two Spanish League players made the list: former Barcelona great Andres Iniesta, who has been living in Japan since 2018, and strikers Robert Lewandowski of Barcelona and Eden Hazard of Real Madrid, who both placed seventh and eighth, respectively.
After 8 years, Mbappe usurps favourites Messi and Ronaldo.
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