Al Nassr Have More UEFA Champions League Winners Than Tottenham : Despite the fact that Al Nassr is not an European club , the Saudi team now can boast of two players who have won the prestigious UEFA Champions League trophy.
First , Cristiano Ronaldo , the world’s most popular soccer player , made the move to the Saudi Arabia side last year.
On 30 December 2022, the Saudi club Al Nassr reached an agreement for Ronaldo to join the club effective 1 January 2023, signing a contract until 2025. As reported by Fabrizio Romano of The Guardian, Ronaldo received the highest football salary in history, worth €200 million per year; this included an annual guaranteed football salary of €90 million, with commercial and sponsorship deals included bringing his total annual salary to €200 million.
He was also reportedly paid a signing-on bonus in the region of €100 million.
According to Romano, Ronaldo rejected a move to Major League Soccer club Sporting Kansas City to join Al Nassr. Ronaldo was due to appear in a match against Al-Tai on 5 January 2023, but had to serve a two-match ban incurred while he was still at Manchester United for knocking a phone out of a 14-year-old Everton fan’s hand after a 1–0 loss at Goodison Park in April 2022.
The Portugal captain won the Champions League once with Manchester United in 2008 , with Real Madrid in 2014 , 2016 , 2017 and 2018.
Latest arrival Sadio Mane also clinched the trophy with Liverpool in 2019.
Mane has become the latest addition to Al-Nassr’s star-studded lineup that already included the International Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo.
Al-Nassr said Mane’s contract would run until 2027, without giving any financial details.
This summer, Al-Nassr signed so far Brazilian left-back Alex Telles from Manchester United, Croatian midfielder Marcelo Brozovic from Inter Milan, and Ivorian midfielder Seko Fofana from France’s Lens.
Mane, who joined Bayern Munich from Liverpool in 2022, has been one of the integral parts of Liverpool, helping the Reds win one UEFA Champions League, one UEFA Super Cup, and one FIFA Club World Cup.
The 31-year-old footballer played a key role in the English club’s long-awaited Premier League title in 2020.
Mane also helped Senegal win the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations title and was named African Footballer of the Year in 2019.
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