Sportune website published a list of the 20 richest players in the world of football, revealing the value of each of them’s wealth.
The surprise was that Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are not the richest, but rather Faiq Bolkiah, a player for the Thai club Ratchaburi, whose fortune is 18.5 billion euros.
The little-known player is the nephew of the Sultan of Brunei, which is why he has such a huge fortune.
Ronaldo came very close to entering the world of a billion. According to the list, he has 850 million euros, compared to 600 million euros for third place and his eternal rival, Lionel Messi.
Mohamed Salah is considered the richest Arab player ever, as the source says that the Liverpool star’s wealth amounts to 83 million euros, and he is the eighth richest football player around the world.
The Egyptian star earns about 400 thousand pounds sterling per week with Liverpool, and also participates in many advertising campaigns, in addition to entering the world of real estate investment in the last 5 years.
Below we will learn together about the list of the 20 richest players in football.
- Faiq Bolkiah – 18.5 billion euros
- Cristiano Ronaldo – 850 million euros
- Lionel Messi – 600 million euros
- Neymar – 231 million euros
- Kylian Mbappe – 166 million euros
- Paul Pogba – 115 million euros
- Antoine Griezmann – 83 million euros
- Mohamed Salah – 83 million euros
- Robert Lewandowski – 79 million euros
- David de Gea – 75 million euros
- Luka Modric – 75 million euros
- Luis Suarez – 65 million euros
- Kevin De Bruyne – 65 million euros
- Thomas Muller – 50 million euros
- Jude Bellingham – 46 million euros
- Sergio Busquets – 41 million euros
- Thiago Silva – 41 million euros
- Erling Haaland – 37 million euros
- Harry Kane – 37 million euros
- Jack Grealish – 37 million euros
