The Money Messi Receives

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The smile that the Argentine star Leo Messi showed weeks ago when signing his new contract with FC Barcelona showed more than the happiness of continuing another five years, practically until the end of his career, at the club where he has been become the best player in the world.

It should also represent the satisfaction that the renewal signed with the president of Barça, Josep María Bartomeu, breaks all records and makes him, probably, the highest-paid athlete on the planet. At least that is suggested by the agreement's figures, which are not public but that the Spanish newspaper El Mundo revealed this week.

According to the newspaper, the striker receives an annual gross income from points out El Mundo, this increase makes Messi receive a few months each month a luxurious residence like this country-style French that is available in Long Island, New York. In fact, he would have over half a million dollars. What to do with so much money!

The enormous amount of money that the Barça forward will receive would allow him to do like Oprah Winfrey and give away a car like this Mercedes every day, which costs about $ 112,000. "A car for you, and for you, and for you," the leader of the Argentine National Team could say.

So much money represents this contract, with what he receives per hour - almost $ 5,000 - he could pay a latte to 983 people. Recall that those figures do not include the $ 27 million in pocket advertising, according to Forbes magazine.

Messi was the third highest-paid athlete in the world in this year's edition of the publication's list, in which he was only surpassed by the American basketball player LeBron James and Cristiano Ronaldo, to whom the magazine calculated an annual income of $ 93 millions adding wages and advertising payments.

It seems that the Portuguese will have to ask for a raise if he wants to remain number one in that classification.