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Over Rs 9 crore: That’s what Ronaldo’s four-and-half-hours value a Saudi firm

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Before becoming a member of Saudi membership Al Nassr for an eyewatering £173 million-a-year deal, Cristiano Ronaldo had value a Saudi Arabia firm round £920,000 (INR 91,951,122) again in 2017 for 4 and a half hours of his time.

This is in line with Der Spiegel journalists Rafael Buschmann and Michael Wulzinger’s ebook Football Leaks which uncovered how a lot it value to rent one of many greatest names on the earth, not to mention soccer.

According to the ebook, a Saudi telecoms enterprise Mobily had struck a cope with Ronaldo’s Irish picture rights firm, Multisports and Image Management. The Saudi-based firm would get four-and-a-half hours with Ronaldo, comprising a photo-shoot, 5 signed shirts and two plugs throughout his social media channels, the place he reportedly earns round £1.6 million (INR 15,98,13,552) per sponsored publish.

For all of those, Ronaldo and his representatives charged the corporate an a whopping quantity of £920,000. The firm was allowed to make use of the images taken on the day however because it was a regional firm, the ads had been restricted to the Middle East and North African international locations.

Meanwhile, Ronaldo on Saturday netted an unbelievable first-half hat trick for his facet Al Nassr towards Damac FC.

After simply 18 minutes into the sport, Ronaldo gave his workforce the lead with a purpose from the penalty spot after Ibrahim Al Nakhli had been penalised for a handball contained in the penalty space.

With a brilliantly executed left-footed drive into the purpose, Ronaldo doubled his tally and gave his workforce a 2-0 lead throughout the subsequent 5 minutes.

With that purpose, Ronaldo has now scored 153 targets together with his weak foot. In his final 4 video games, he has scored seven targets and registered two assists.

Ronaldo added to Damac’s agony a minute earlier than halftime by ending a sweeping counterattack towards Kresimir Rezic’s facet to win the match ball.