Messi vs Cristiano Ronaldo: who are the best paid footballers of 2020?

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo began to dominate this ranking once David Beckham stopped playing professionally. Since then no other player has been able to beat what Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi earn. Now the important thing is that thanks to the ranking made by Forbes, we were able to know who charges more than the other.

Despite being highly questioned at FC Barcelona, Lionel Messi continues to be the player who receives the most money and in this way surpasses Cristiano Ronaldo. Lionel Messi, according to Forbes, receives from FC Barcelona a figure close to $ 126 million, while Cristiano Ronaldo receives $ 117 million per year from Juventus.

After Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, no player exceeds $ 100 million, but Neymar is the one who is closest. With $ 96 million, Neymar ranks third in the Forbes ranking and his teammate Kylian Mbappe follows in fourth with $ 42 million.

Thanks to what Forbes revealed, we can see that Lionel Messi earns more than Mohamed Salah, Pogba and Griezmann together. It is incredible that a single player like Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo manages that a club can pay him such an amount of money. To have a dimension, Antoine Griezmann receives from FC Barcelona a figure close to $ 33 million.

David Beckham was one of the players who dominated the salary market for many years. The LA Galaxy player achieved one of the highest salaries in the world when he received almost $ 40 million from the MLS club. At that time, Kaka at Real Madrid was charging very similar to David Beckham and Ronaldinho, he was at AC Milan, he was charging less than $ 35 million.