Lionel Messi is one of the richest athletes on the planet—here’s how much he makes and how he spends his fortune.

The financial picture around Lionel Messi looks increasingly settled and unusually large even by elite athlete standards. In 2025, multiple industry estimates place his personal wealth between $800 ...

Lionel Messi has nothing left to prove on the football field, yet his career keeps entering new phases. When he moved to MLS and joined David Beckham's Inter Miami in 2023, the move was viewed as a ...

Lionel Messi, Naomi Osaka, and a select class of global sports icons are proving that the modern definition of greatness no longer lives in contracts alone. Money used to be the scoreboard.

Soccer superstar Lionel Messi is making between $70 million and $80 million per year, said Inter Miami owner Jorge Mas, but it’s “worth every penny.” “The reason that I need to have sponsors and for ...

When we talk about the richest footballers, many of us probably think immediately of Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi. But that’s simply not true. While Cristiano Ronaldo is indeed the highest-paid ...

What does it take to have one of the world’s greatest soccer players on your roster? Well, about $80 million a year. “The reason that I need to have sponsors and for them to be world class is because ...

Even though plenty of details about Lionel Messi's Inter Miami contract are known, the specifics of his yearly salary have finally been confirmed by the club's owner. Jorge Mas said in an interview (h ...