Cristiano Ronaldo leads the list of the 10 highest-paid athletes in the world in 2024 published by Forbes magazine.

The huge salary from Al Nassr Club (Saudi Pro League) largely contributed to helping Cristiano Ronaldo earn more than 205 million pounds this year – a number that allows “The Seven Arabs” to top the list of high-income athletes. world, as announced by Forbes magazine, for the fourth time in his career.

Thus, every day this U40 star pockets nearly 684,931 pounds.

The biggest surprise on this list was in second place, when superstar Lionel Messi was ousted by golfer Jon Rahm. According to Forbes, the Spanish golfer earned about 172 million pounds this year. This is the biggest surprise because last year Jon Rahm only ranked 29th.

Jon Rahm shocked the golf world last December when he announced he would join LIV Golf, a tournament sponsored by Saudi Arabia. This change decision alone has brought Jon Rahm up to 156 million pounds, the amount of money any athlete desires.

Therefore, Lionel Messi was forced to sadly move down one place, to 3rd place on this list with an income of 107 million pounds. And more than half of the 2022 World Cup champion’s income comes from activities outside of competition.

There is also information that the Argentina captain is about to launch his own sports drink with the manufacturer White Claw Hard Seltzer next summer.

For the first time in history, all 10 stars at the top of the list published by Forbes all earned more than 78 million pounds (about 100 million USD). Their total income amounted to 1.03 billion pounds.

The financial boom in sports has no limits on salaries and advertising contracts, and athletes are the main beneficiaries of this.