FOOTBALL: Cristiano Ronaldo Agrees transfer to Al Nassr of Saudi Arabia for an annual salary of 200 million euros

Cris­tiano Ronal­do, who decid­ed to trans­fer to Sau­di Ara­bi­a’s Al Nassr and decid­ed to become the high­est paid ath­lete in history.

The super­star, who left Man­ches­ter Unit­ed last week, will become a free agent.

How­ev­er, Mar­ca reports that he has agreed to a two-and-a-half-year deal with Al Nasr for an annu­al salary of €200 million.

Al Hilal are believed to be inter­est­ed in Ronal­do, who has turned down a €3.5m week­ly offer to play in Sau­di Ara­bia this summer.

Rivals Al Nassr, who have turned down inter­est from New­cas­tle, are clos­ing in on him.

Inter Mia­mi are also inter­est­ed in Ronal­do, with own­er David Beck­ham report­ed­ly hav­ing a meet­ing with the 37-year-old.

Rudi Gar­ci­a’s team sits sec­ond in the Sau­di Pro League, three points behind Al-Shabaab.

The league is on hia­tus for the World Cup and Al Nass­r’s next game is on Decem­ber 16, two days before the final.

Ronal­do is aim­ing to reach the World Cup final with Por­tu­gal and could close the line with sign­ing Al Nassr in January.

The for­mer Unit­ed star has agreed to ter­mi­nate his con­tract with the Red Dev­ils after crit­i­ciz­ing the club in an inter­view with Piers Morgan.

Ronal­do has crit­i­cized the lack of progress at the club since the depar­ture of Sir Alex Fer­gu­son and revealed he does not respect Eric ten Hag.

He also claimed that the Glaz­er fam­i­ly did­n’t care about Unit­ed and were inter­est­ed in mak­ing mon­ey com­mer­cial­iz­ing the club.