All along, there are always people who attack Messi with high annual salary, believing that his performance is not worthy of the world's first annual salary, and C Ronaldo, who has just created a football scoring record, should get the highest annual salary. In fact, Messi did take the world's highest annual salary for a while, and in the last few seasons of barca, after several contract modifications, his annual salary reached a maximum of more than 100 million euros before tax, and the money he received every year was at least 50 million euros, far more than other football superstars. However, with Messi leaving Barca, his salary has dropped sharply, and according to the latest news from the French media, Messi is currently around 30 million euros.
Many people may say, 30 million euros is not still the world's first? Of course not, when C Ronaldo was still playing at Juve, the salary reached 3100 euros after tax, and after joining Manchester United, the salary exposed by the Sun was 510,000 pounds per week, which should be more than 30 million euros per year, which is roughly the same as in the Bianconeri period. So, the world's first annual salary now is C Ronaldo? In the Premier League, Ronaldo's salary is the highest, earning more than 100,000 pounds a week more than De Bruyne, De Gea, Pogba and others, but the world's highest-paid footballer is actually Messi's little brother Neymar.
In fact, before 2020, Neymar's salary is almost 30 million euros, because he is clamoring to return to Barca, Paris had to renew his contract and increase his salary. According to the team newspaper, Neymar's annual salary is about 33-34 million euros after tax, and there are many floating bonuses in the contract terms, and the annual income is likely to reach 450 million euros. However, judging from Neymar's performance at this stage, not to mention the floating bonus, the annual salary of more than 30 million euros, he is also seriously unworthy. Neymar has been in Paris for 4 and a half seasons, and his performance has become worse and worse, and this season's long-term high-hanging free card has disappointed management and fans.
A few days ago, it was reported that Neymar's attitude was very problematic, and sometimes he would even come to the training ground "drunk". We all know that Brazilian players are generally free and loose, but even if they are bohemian like Xiao Luo and Pato, they can't do such things as being accompanied by beautiful women on the eve of the game and going to the training ground drunk. In this regard, Neymar's two predecessors can be said to be more than enough. As early as when Neymar reached his peak, some people predicted his fall, and now it seems that if he stays in Barcelona, under the "surveillance" of Messi, Suya and other big brothers, his personal life may be much more disciplined, and he will not fall so quickly.
Messi has an annual salary of 30 million euros, and with 9 rounds left in Ligue 1, he only has 2 league goals, even if he is at the top of the assist list with 10 assists, it will still make many people unsatisfied. Most crucially, Messi played a key penalty in the Champions League and did not help Paris reach the top 8, which made the outside world more critical and accusatory. From this point of view, although Messi was blamed for the world's highest annual salary, his performance still did not reach the level he should have.
Ronaldo's situation is not much better, currently scoring 12 Premier League goals, scoring 18 goals and assisting 3 times in 32 appearances this season, which looks good. But the problem is that Ronaldo's goal drought is getting longer and longer, the real strong dialogue, the number of stealth is also increasing, coupled with the Manchester United Premier League title is hopeless, the Champions League has been eliminated, and it may even fail to qualify for next season's Champions League, his performance can only be considered decent. It is worth mentioning that Iniesta's annual salary in the Japanese league is as high as 28 million euros, more than Mbappe's 25 million, ranking 4th in world football.