Cristiano Ronaldo has signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with Saudi Arabian membership Al Nassr after leaving Manchester United totally free.
Ronaldo departed Outdated Trafford final month following an explosive tv interview wherein the 37-year-old ahead stated he felt betrayed by the membership and didn’t respect their Dutch supervisor Erik ten Hag.
الرياضي الأعظـم عالميًا 🌏
يـوقع رسميًا لـ #العالمي 🤩#رونالدو_نصراوي pic.twitter.com/BBq469mAYh— نادي النصر السعودي (@AlNassrFC) December 30, 2022
Al Nassr issued a press release saying the five-time Ballon D’or winner will be part of on a deal till 2025 however didn’t disclose any monetary particulars.
Media reviews have claimed the Portugal captain may very well be incomes as much as $200 million a 12 months from the deal, which might make him the highest-paid soccer participant in historical past.
The Saudi Professional League membership introduced his arrival in a tweet saying: “The world’s biggest athlete formally signed for Al-Nassr.”
“It is a signing that won’t solely encourage our membership to realize even higher success however encourage our league, our nation and future generations, girls and boys to be the very best model of themselves,” the membership wrote.
Ronaldo stated in a press release that he was “desirous to expertise a brand new soccer league in a special nation.”
“I’m lucky that I’ve received all the things I got down to win in European soccer and really feel now that that is the suitable second to share my expertise in Asia,” the ahead added.
Benzema stars for Actual Madrid
Striker Karim Benzema despatched Actual Madrid prime of La Liga with a second-half brace in opposition to Actual Valladolid.
Ballon d’Or winner Benzema returned to the beginning lineup after lacking the World Cup for France, having suffered a thigh damage the day earlier than the beginning, and had a huge impact.
That’s it. That’s the photograph. 💪 pic.twitter.com/cQAwMLEVgx
— Actual Madrid C.F. 🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@realmadriden) December 30, 2022
Actual had been awarded a penalty within the 83rd minute for handball by Javi Sanchez. The choice despatched the house group right into a frenzy and Leon was despatched off for dissent. Benzema transformed with ease.
The unmarked Benzema then doubled Actual’s lead within the 89th with a well-placed shot from contained in the field after an help from substitute Eduardo Camavinga.
Actual have 38 factors forward of second-placed Barca, who host Espanyol on Saturday.
Liverpool beat Leicester 2-1
Liverpool got here from behind to beat Leicester Metropolis 2-1 however solely after two calamitous personal objectives from visiting defender Wout Faes of their Premier League conflict at Anfield on Friday.
The Belgian centre again miscued a clearance within the thirty eighth minute at hand Liverpool the equaliser, after Leicester took a shock fourth minute lead by means of Kiernan Dewsbury-Corridor, after which put the ball into his web once more on the stroke of halftime.
He grew to become simply the fourth participant to attain two personal objectives in the identical recreation within the Premier League.
It’s now 4 successive league victories for Liverpool for the primary time since April, which has moved the group inside two factors of fourth-place Tottenham. Leicester has now misplaced back-to-back video games after the World Cup break and stay simply 4 factors above the relegation zone.