Ronaldo rejects 365 billion won offer from Saudi Arabian club

Cristiano Ronaldo

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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Dong-chan Kim = Cristiano Ronaldo (37, Portugal), a star player of Manchester United (hereafter referred to as Manchester United) in the English Premier League, has rejected an offer worth more than 360 billion won from a Saudi Arabian league club.

On the 15th, ESPN, an American sports media outlet, said, “A professional team in Saudi Arabia offered Ronaldo 275 million euros (about 364.95 billion won) over two years.” But Ronaldo rejected it. did,” he reported.

It has not been disclosed which club was involved in the signing of Ronaldo.

Ronaldo, who joined Manchester United ahead of the 2021-2022 season, still has one year left on his contract, but rumors of a transfer to another team have surfaced ahead of the 2022-2023 season.

It is said that Ronaldo expressed his desire to play in the UEFA Champions League (UCL) for the 2022-2023 season and conveyed his desire to move to another team to United.

Manchester United finished sixth in the Premier League for the 2021-2022 season and did not qualify for the 2022-2023 UCL season.

The unnamed Saudi Arabian team’s attempt to sign Ronaldo was in vain, as Ronaldo rejected the Saudi Arabian team’s offer and Manchester United manager Eric Ten Haach also said that he had no intention of transferring Ronaldo.

If Ronaldo went to the Saudi Arabian League under the same conditions as reported by ESPN, his annual salary would be 137.5 million euros, or 182.5 billion Korean won, and he could become the world’s highest-paid soccer player.

Kylian Mbappe (Paris Saint-Germain), currently the highest-paid football player, is known to be around 50 million euros.

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