Cristiano Ronaldo Propels Saudi Arabia to New Heights Over European Clubs

Football Benchmark has released statistics showing Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo’s impact on Al Nasr as the Saudi club’s social media accounts saw a significant increase in the team’s following.

The Saudi team was the most attractive club for new followers across all social media, “Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and Weibo” between 1 January and 28 February, surpassing Real Madrid and Manchester United, Cristiano’s former club . commands.

On December 30, Al-Nasr announced that he had formally signed a free transfer deal with Ronaldo after the player had previously terminated his contract with Manchester United by mutual agreement of the two parties.

Al-Nasr became the leader with 9,666,756 new subscribers.

While Real Madrid’s new subscribers reached 8,835,600 new subscribers.

Note that the Spanish club is the most followed club in the world on social media, according to a report from last January, with 242 million followers.

In third place is Paris Saint-Germain with 8,748,335 new subscribers in the last two months.

Despite the financial suffering of the Spanish side Barcelona and the suspicions about the financial payments to the former Deputy Chairman of the Referee Committee of Spain Enriques Negrera, this did not affect his popularity, becoming fourth in the list and increasing his number of subscribers to 7,569,430 subscribers in the first two months of 2023 of the year.

Manchester City finished fifth with 5,544,198 new social media followers.

And London club Tottenham finished in sixth place with an increase in the number of subscribers – 5,340,117 people.

Despite Juventus suffering, whether at league or administrative level, it was the only Italian club among the top ten clubs to gain a new following.

Over the past two months, the old woman has gained 4,886,894 new subscribers.

While Bayern Munich continued to keep the face of German football in eighth place, increasing their number of subscribers by 3,908,217 people.

Manchester United have returned from afar to become one of the most visible contenders for the league title and won the League Cup last month. In the past two months, he has gained 3,880,900 new social media followers.

And Chelsea, England, has 3,440,644 new subscribers in the last two months. The new signings may be linked to a number of deals the club has struck with international players, most notably Ukraine’s Mykhailo Modric, Portugal’s Joao Felix and Argentina’s Enzo. Fernandes, who became the most expensive deal in the history of the entire English Premier League, with whom the Blues signed a contract with Benfica for 121 million euros.

Source: goal