Premier League - Ronaldo's £106m pay bonanza

Eurosport - Fri, 12 Jun 14:10:00 2009

Cristiano Ronaldo is set to earn £106 million from his six-year deal at Real Madrid, with a mind-boggling final salary of £556,000-a-week.

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The Portuguese star is on the verge of a move to the Bernabeu after Manchester United accepted a world record £80m bid for him on Thursday.

He will discuss a contract with the Spanish giants when he returns from holiday in Los Angeles, and will land the biggest contract in football history.

Real are expected to offer a structured deal starting at £183,000-a-week, but with a 25 per cent rise every season seeing his pay soar above half a million pounds every week in the final year of his contract.

Based on current exchange rates, Ronaldo's will be the fifth-largest contract in sports history behind four baseball deals.

The biggest belongs to Alex Rodriguez, who signed a 10-year, $275m (£167m) deal with the New York Yankees in 2008, equating to an average annual salary of £16.7m; slightly less than Ronaldo.

Rodriguez's previous $252m (£153m) contract with the Texas Rangers comes in at number two, while A-Rod's Yankees team-mates Derek Jeter ($189/10 years) and Mark Teixeira ($180m/eight years) both exceed Ronaldo, whose likely £106m contract is worth $174m.

Football's highest earner is David Beckham, who rakes in £27m per year, but only £4m comes from his club LA Galaxy; the rest is sponsorship and merchandising.

Ronaldo was fourth on a recently-published France Football list of the sport's highest earners behind Beckham, Lionel Messi and Ronaldinho, but he can expect his £15.5m total earnings from 2008 to increase significantly following his move to Madrid.

Ronaldo's possible £556,000-a-week wage in the last year of his contract works out at:

£79,428 a day

£3,309 an hour

£55 a minute

92p per second

Or, if Real Madrid play two games in a week:

£51.48 per second on the pitch.

What can Ronaldo buy with his total £106m Real Madrid contract?

- A Big Mac for every man, woman and child in the United Kingdom.

- 530 new Ferrari 599 GTBs, like the one he wrote off in a crash earlier this year.

- Himself, with enough change for Carlos Tevez.

- Newcastle United Football Club.

- 588,000 hours in a tanning salon.

- 34,754,098 tubes of Brylcreem wet look hair gel.

- 42,400 ceiling mirrors.

- The most expensive house in Los Angeles, which belongs to TV producer Aaron Spelling, a three-story mansion with 56,500 square feet of space and a 4.6 acre estate.

- 163,077 bottles of Cristal champagne for himself and Paris Hilton at Hollywood nightspot My House.

- 26,500,000 inflatable donkeys.

- 10,610,610 pairs of Cristiano Ronaldo pyjamas.

- 706,666,667 telephone votes for Cristiano Ronaldo as Overseas Sports Personality of 2009.

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Alex Chick / Eurosport

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  1. hallo
    jjhjkjkjljlkjjkghkgkjk

    From Tpain, on Sat 13 Jun 9:39AM

  2. my god thats alot

    From Tpain, on Sat 13 Jun 9:37AM

  3. This is crazy how much will the public be asked to fork­ out for a game to see him play,I do not even go and­ watch my local team Carlisle united because thay have­ the cheek to charge £13:00 for the cheapest entrance to­ watch the rubbish that they can afford to buy.I think­ for this coming season everytrue supporter in the land­ should refuse to buy a season ticket or pay on the door­ they would soon get the message.Look at the French if­ they don't like something the whole country goes on­ strike and whatever it is soon gets dropped COME ON­ LETS ALL STICK TOGETHER boycott all the games in the­ country also stop buying pay per viewas well.

    From celtic, on Sat 13 Jun 9:35AM

  4. Sorry, but looking at those figures reveals, more than­ anything else, that despite their fame, footballers­ aren't even close to the true Super-rich. I mean,­ if Ronaldo (who will soon be on the biggest pay deal­ ever known for a player) saved every penny he earned­ for the next six years, he would JUST be able to afford­ Newcastle. Of course he'd then have nothing to­ spend on new players so there wouldn't be much­ point. Yet Mike Ashley - who'd even heard of him­ till he got involved with football? - can swan in, buy­ the club up, screw it over and sell it at a massive­ loss and still go home to roll in a pigsty filled with­ cash. Footballers obviously don't 'deserve'­ their wages, but then who does?

    From sergeisdiary, on Sat 13 Jun 9:30AM

  5. WHAT WORLD WIDE RECESSION no such thing we are all­ wallowing in luxury eating steak and caviar every day­ buying the best cars ad setting up £5 million trust­ funds for our kids.HANG ON i have just woke up the­ bills are still there WILL i pay them or do i eat this­ week . The top clubs in ANY COUNTRY SHOULD BE MADE TO­ PUT £1million INTO A FUND THAT NON LEAGUE CLUBS CAN­ APPLY FOR TO SET A BETTER STANDARD FOR OUR KIDS.

    From celtic, on Sat 13 Jun 9:26AM

  6. You know whats disgusting...Its people who have a­ problem when someone is getting paid what they­ deserve...By the way for all those who have no idea of­ business principles, Ronaldo is not just a good­ football player...He is a brand...and if you have no­ idea what a brand is ...its a valuable name in­ layman's terms...Like Coca Cola and Nike...Football­ now comes second in terms of his value especially as­ current world boller of the year. Now this nonsense­ about what football used to be should stop. The man is­ being paid his current market value ...You want to­ blame anyone , blame the market and yourself as a­ consumer in the football market for driving up the­ prices by being willing to pay that much for your sky­ subs, season tickets and your football jersey and that­ pint you drink while watching the game..Coz thats where­ the money comes from...Shame on you for asking Ronaldo­ to take a lower wage comparable to 10 or twenty years­ ago when you know full well that your salary today is­ much much more than what it was 10 or twenty years­ ago...Again down to market forces...And again I­ don't care what it is you do today your salary­ would be astronomical compared to even five years ago­ if your are the best in the world at it...Just sit­ there and try and imagine the salary for the­ "best" news presenter...or the­ "best" glamour model Jordan is in her­ millions...No disrespect to people in the service but­ I'll tell you something that everybody wont...there­ isn't exactly a shortage of service people, the­ government has a large market including commonwealth­ nationals willing to defend the union jack simply in­ exchange for permission to stay in England e.g the the­ Gurkhas...While your lives are as valuable as any human­ being's, your job ain't exactly income­ generating. Yours is a job just like mine, just because­ you chose to do in inthe line of fire drapped in a flag­ and politicians say its for my life does'nt make it­ more valuable just be

    From nhlalo, on Sat 13 Jun 9:24AM

  7. YOUR SOO RIGHT ALEX SOO RIGHT YOU FOR GOT ONE THING­ THO..7 LADIE BOYS A DAY FOR THE PONCE

    From brave heart., on Sat 13 Jun 9:23AM

  8. THINK OF THE 3RD WORLD COUNTRIES IN NEED OF DESPRATE­ FOOD AND WATER ..1 WORD ..SHOCKING!

    From Craigy, on Sat 13 Jun 9:21AM

  9. It doesn't matter how much he earns and hour or­ second because the one thing it cannot buy is Life or­ Love !!!

    From peterpuchalski, on Sat 13 Jun 9:20AM

  10. theres alot o bitter people out there but ye they are­ all correct in wot they say...... no one is worth that­ amount of money for kicking a football around !!!! the­ world HAS gone crazy but a can tell u this i can sleep­ sound in ma bed at night knowing wot i give to cancer­ research every month is helping just that wee bit, not­ much but helping!!!!!!!!! enough said. ­ Colin in Dumfries.

    From Colin, on Sat 13 Jun 9:19AM

  11. The football fraternity has began a game they will not­ be able to finish.The money is simply outrageous.I hope­ CR will still be able to carry his head on his­ shoulders.Coming to more serious issue there will be­ lot of envy among other players especially if CR is­ under performing and the other players are performing­ well.The stakes have been pushed too far and clubs will­ be constantly put under pressure by performing players­ to meet demands that will be difficult to meet.The­ fans will be worst hit they will have to pay more .

    From Kester, on Sat 13 Jun 9:16AM

  12. NOBODY in the world deserves this amount of money - and­ especially not a sportsman. Football used to be a­ sport that all fans used to go and support - not­ it's a 'business' that those same fans can­ no longer afford. In these times of dire financial­ hardship I find it somewhat vulgar that a) this amount­ has been paid and b) it has been published for the­ world to see.

    From Emmachubba, on Sat 13 Jun 9:06AM

  13. The world has gone mad and lost it popective for what­ is of value All these over paid Footballers/pop stars­ and Actors need to be cut done to size money wise.
    I­ work in the community and every day see carers &­ families who struggle to get by on a pitance they call­ carers allowance while saving the country &­ goverment a small fortune.

    From Mary, on Sat 13 Jun 9:02AM

  14. I have read all of these messages and all of them are­ so true i'm a teenager who likes to wach footbal­ as much as all of the footie fans do i buy tikets. I­ watch games on tv but never would i want Ronaldo to be­ sold for 106million I love footie woo,boo Ronaldo. lol­ HAHAHA love all u guys ...

    From D, on Sat 13 Jun 8:35AM

  15. Only one word for this wage­ packet......DISGUSTING.

    Where are they getting the­ money from.....the punters of course. The ordinary­ workers who fork out their hard earned cash. I TOTALLY­ DISAGREE with this obscene amount of money. And for­ anybody to turn round and say he is worth it, must be­ able to give a good argument against this and the­ millions of starving people in this world. A surgeon­ who saves lives as just one example gets nowhere near­ this mount of money and yet he/she has spent several­ years of studying and training before they get anywhere­ near a patient to perform a life saving operation. ­ Kicking a ball around a field is NOT life saving. I do­ enjoy football but this is ridiculous especially as so­ many people are losing their jobs/homes around the­ world and little children are starving.
    The only way I­ can see any reprieve in this is for him to donate quite­ a substantial amount to charity.

    From Eamonn, on Sat 13 Jun 8:32AM

  16. OMG...... I dont think he is worth that amount of money­ any day of the week or any month of the year ect. so­ all that shows is i dont really like him but its true­ if he saved someones life mabe he would be worth half­ of it its just stupid.

    From D, on Sat 13 Jun 8:22AM

  17. It's disgusting. The world is in recession. The­ N.H.S. is in trouble. Charities need money. There are­ no job's for school leavers. People all over the­ world are facing poverty. He kicks a ball about a­ park and earns enough to fix all these things. WHAT A­ WASTE.

    From Eileen, on Sat 13 Jun 8:19AM

  18. lovin it!!! utd scum bitter and twisted.Ronaldo won ya­­ eveything for last 3 year and now made u 68 million­­ profit yet you still slag him off .reading comments­­ above great laugh about Hargreaves was the main reason­­ u lost cl final. Hargreaves 17mil +nani 17mil­ +anderson­ 16mil + Berbatov 32mil= Ronaldo .That were­ ya 80mil­ went lol

    From Dave, on Sat 13 Jun 8:15AM

  19. will he take his prostitutes with him

    or sign up a new­ set of harlots in Madrid .....?

    From pitcrew66, on Sat 13 Jun 8:13AM

  20. PERHAPS IF ALL THE BANKS RECALLED THEIR LOANS AND­ OVERDRAUGHTS IN THEN THE CLUBS WOULD NOT BE IN THE­ POSITION TO OFFER PLAYERS OVER INFLATED WAGES AND THE­ KNOCK ON EFFECT
    WOULD PERHAPS BE LOWER ENTRANCE FEES­ TO WATCH PREMIER CLUBS, EVERY ONE COULD WATCH
    MAJOR­ PREMIERSHIP GAMES ON TERRESTIAL TV INSTEAD BECAUSE IT­ WOULD BE CHEAPER TO BUY THE TV RIGHTS (LIKE IT WAS IN­ THE PAST ) SAYING ALL THIS THOUGH OBLIVIOSLY THE CLUBS­ ARE RUN HAS A BUSINESS PERHAPS THE FA NEED TO OVERSEE­ THESE BUSINESSES?AND EARN THEIR
    FAT PAY PACKETS

    From N L, on Sat 13 Jun 8:12AM
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