As soon as the Premier was over, with United ranked in a discreet sixth place, Pogba embarked for Tokyo. TOHe started a 15-day tour that took him, from the hand of Adidas, from Japan to Shanghai and finally to NY. The medium is one of the main claims of the German brand and, according to Forbes, the footballer who enters the most after Messi, Cristiano and Neymar. A transfer to Madrid could put him close.
The latest Forbes top-paid list of 2019 brought surprises. It was the first in three decades led by a footballer, Messi (€ 127m gross, 92 salary and 35 in advertising). But there was more, two other players followed: Cristiano (58 + 40) and Neymar (67 + 27). All three, absolute symbols of the bubble in which football has been installed. Behind them, other illustrious names like the boxer Canelo Álvarez (85 million in total), Federer (84) American football players Rodgers Y Wilson (both 80) and the NBA LeBron (80), Curry (72) or Kevin Durant (39).
Neymar, Cristiano and Messi.
LLUIS GENE (AFP)
You have to go to position 44 to find the next footballer in the Forbes list of athletes with more income. And it's Pogba. He entered 33 million, four of them for advertising. He is the first of the rest of the mortals after the trident Messi, Cristiano and Neymar although he is still separated by a world. Iniesta is at 46 (32 million), Mbappé at 55 (30), position 75 is for Griezmann (27) and position 79 is for Bale (26).
Pogba is actually a diamond in the rough at 27. Stand next to Mbappé of the world champion team, signed in 2016 a contract with Adidas for ten years and a value of 40 million euros. He is not committed to any other brand, he has only made sporadic collaborations. Madrid's estimate is that it could increase its advertising revenue to 10 million. Important, since it is customary in the white entity, from the galactic era, r50% share those image rights. Pogba could pay part of his salary. There are not many players with that economic return. It was on his last Asian tour when Pogba released an SOS last summer: “It is time to start other challenges.” This summer, with United wanting to renew him, It will be the last opportunity to sign him.