Forbes magazine published an investigative report.

They ranked the annual earnings of athletes around the world this year.

In this list, most of the top are elites in their respective fields.

For example, LeBron James in basketball, Roger Federer in tennis, Cam Newton in American football, Michael Elson in golf, Hamilton in F1, Mayweather in boxer, and so on.

Mayweather, the 16th-ranked American boxing champion on this list, earned 35.2 million euros in 2016.

is roughly similar to Tencent's sponsorship contract for Chu Ge.

Of course, Mayweather, who is the king of sports gold, has only been in the league for 16 years, so his income has declined. In 2015, Mayweather's annual income reached 193 million pounds, far surpassing Ronaldo at that time, and he was a money-making star in the world sports world.

However, Mayweather has a high income from the competition, and the endorsement contract income is not much.

Chu Ge ranks first on this list of Fox global athletes' annual earnings.

This is the first time that a Chinese sports star, or even an Asian sports star, has reached the top of this list!

According to Forbes, Chu Ge's annual revenue in 2016 reached a staggering 90 million euros.

It surpassed Cristiano Ronaldo (70.5 million euros) in second place and Barcelona star Lionel Messi (65.2 million euros) in third place.

Interestingly, three footballers ranked in the top three at the same time, and among the three, Chu Ge ranked first in total income and had the lowest salary.

In fact.

Manchester United's salary to Chu Ge is not low.

With a weekly salary of 200,000 pounds, in the current Premier League, there are only a dozen people who surpass Chu Ge.

The annual salary equivalent to about 14 million euros before tax is also quite high in world football.

However, both Ronaldo and Messi have annual salaries of more than 40 million euros before tax.

Compared with them, Chu Ge's salary income seems to be slightly lower.

And this also shows that Chu Ge still has a lot of room to rise in terms of salary income in the future.

In Chugo's contract with Manchester United, there is a salary clause.

As long as Chu Ge triggers the activation condition, his weekly salary will immediately rise from £200,000 to £290,000, an increase of 45%.

At that time, his annual salary before tax will exceed 20 million euros.

In order to activate this maximum salary clause, Chu Ge needs to reach or exceed 25 league goals and assists this season.

So far, 12 rounds have been played in the Premier League this season.

With the exception of one game due to injury, Chu Ge started the remaining eleven league games, scoring a total of 11 goals and providing five assists.

In 38 rounds of the league, less than a third of the schedule, Chu Ge has already scored 16 goals and assists.

It is only 9 different from the 25 agreed in the maximum salary clause!

As long as there are 9 more offenses or assists, Chu Ge will activate the salary cap clause in the contract. At that time, his weekly salary will not only be the highest in the Manchester United team, but also the top three in the entire Premier League.

It is said that Tottenham Hotspur's number one star Harry Kane is about to complete a contract extension with the club.

According to British media reports, Kane's weekly salary after the contract renewal will reach 300,000 pounds, which is the maximum salary in the Premier League.

If Kane does get a weekly salary of £300,000, it will also be a good thing for Chu Ge.

As long as he continues to play steadily and performs better than Kane, the team will not treat him badly.

There is more money in the Premier League, and Manchester United has never lost anyone.

On the Fox Global Athlete Income Rankings.

Compared with Ronaldo and Messi, the two long-established heroes, Chu Ge has a low working income, but the income from commercial endorsement contracts is far more than the sum of the two.

Ronaldo's current annual income from commercial endorsements is 25.6 million euros.

Slightly higher than old rival Messi.

Combined, the endorsement income of these two superstars does not exceed 50 million euros.

And Chu Ge alone reached 76 million euros.

Among them, it is natural to thank Tencent's father.

As soon as Boss Ma made a move, Chu Ge immediately reached the top, this is the charm of the Chinese market!

Of course.

Nike (12 million), Pepsi (8 million), KFC (5 million), Huawei Communications (4 million), etc., the contribution of these bigwigs is not small.

The sponsorship amount of Chu Ge and Nike, although it is currently maintained at a minimum of 12 million euros.

But just like Manchester United's contract, as long as certain conditions are met, he can even get up to 40 million euros a year from Nike.

If you can really get 40 million a year from Nike, Chu Ge's annual income will exceed 100 million euros!

If his salary rises again, his income can be even higher.

Not to mention Messi and Ronaldo, even if the annual income of these two bigwigs is combined, they can't catch up with Chu Ge alone!

And.

According to Jean Reno.

In addition to Tencent, which has already finalized the contract, there is also a game that has also found Chu Ge.

That is the famous game company, FIFA football under EA in the United States, the absolute king of the football game world.

Although it was once (ten years) beaten by Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer team, with the pursuit of authentic football concepts, respect for copyright, and Krypton gacha card system, FIFA made a perfect counterattack, not only regaining the lost market share, but also becoming the thickest cash cow under EA.

Americans are always willing to invest when it comes to doing business.

Just like Nike, EA loves to find their face in football.

For this, they sometimes even spared no expense.

People like Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi, Ronaldo, Torres and others have all been cover stars of FIFA football. For games that are sold in different regions, EA sometimes even looks for one of the most well-known local stars to be the face of the region.

As the most popular idol star of the new generation in world football and whose commercial value is favored by all parties, Chu Ge was naturally targeted by EA very early.

Now, they think it's a good time to sign with Chu Ge.

In fact, it's also EA Football.

When Tencent signed a contract with Chu Ge, they once tried to sign an exclusive endorsement agreement with Chu Ge in the game field.

Once signed, the agreement will be undiscriminatory and exclusive.

All game manufacturers, as long as they want to sign a contract with Chu Ge, they can't get around Tencent.

But.

Due to prior communication with EA executives, Su Qingqing vetoed Tencent's proposal.

If you want to sign an exclusive endorsement contract with Chu Ge in the whole game field, Tencent needs to spend a higher amount.

Tencent didn't have much of an opinion on spending more money, but considering that it didn't seem necessary, it didn't insist.

That's what gave EA a chance.

Uncle Ma's game library currently does not have copycat FIFA football, and there are no football games in the game endorsement list they signed with Chu Ge, so EA still has a chance to sign Chu Ge.

In case the two cooperate in the future, it just so happens that they can share a spokesperson......

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After signing these three contracts, Lei Luo left happily.

He plans to go to Los Angeles at public expense to talk to EA about cooperation.

Making money makes him happy.

Soon after Renault left, Chu Ge's house welcomed a new guest.