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Lionel Messi humiliates Cristiano Ronaldo: why the FC Barcelona GOAT earns more than the Juventus star

By Federico Aldrighetti

The salary that Lionel Messi earns at FC Barcelona is way higher than Cristiano Ronaldo's at Real Madrid and Juventus. Why does this happen?

The salary that Lionel Messi earns at FC Barcelona is way higher than Cristiano Ronaldo's at Real Madrid and Juventus. Why does this happen?

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The leak of Lionel Messi's contract at FC Barcelona published by El Mundo revealed not only the astronomical salary he earns in that club, but also that he is given a lot more money than Cristiano Ronaldo. And the reason was implied in that document signed by the Argentinian and Josep Maria Bartomeu.

The Portuguese is the active soccer player with the biggest net worth, so this contract of Messi helps him to keep up with what Ronaldo makes. But the salaries of these stars say a lot of the styles of management of Bartomeu and Florentino Perez, whose guidelines led CR7 to Juventus.

The reason for the gap was simple: the board at FC Barcelona was willing to risk the wellbeing of the club to keep Messi, while Florentino was never going to concede that for his star. Cristiano wanted a salary similar at Messi's but the denial of the president started the conflict who shipped him out of Real Madrid.

Ronaldo earns 31 million euro per year at Juventus, what is a happy ending for him. The Casa Blanca lost that battle but won the war, surviving this economic crisis from the pandemic, while FC Barcelona is struggling like never before and will need some years to recover from this.

 


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