Messi Beats Ronaldo To Set New Document As Man Utd Lose Membership Document

Paris Saint-Germain ahead, Lionel Messi, has crushed Manchester United star, Cristiano Ronaldo to set a brand new document following his transfer to the Parisians final summer time.

Messi’s high-profile summer time switch from Barcelona to PSG a yr in the past has shattered the document of participant shirt gross sales, which means that Ronaldo and Manchester United now not maintain that document.

PSG bought over a million shirts for the primary time final season, with ‘Messi 30’ accounting for over 60 p.c of that determine, which is the document for any soccer participant.

As reported by the Mirror UK on Friday, It means Messi’s shirt gross sales surpassed that of Ronaldo, who returned to Manchester United final summer time from Juventus and the Pink Devils are now not the membership that sells essentially the most reproduction shirts.

The report added that just about €1 million was generated in shirt gross sales alone within the hours following affirmation that Messi had joined the French Ligue 1 champions and would put on the quantity 30 shirt.

The arrival of the Argentine additionally noticed PSG transfer its official retailer to the Champs-Elysees to double its floor space and improve its earnings from life-style merchandise as nicely with its Jordan Model additionally serving to to drive gross sales.

In the meantime, PSG president Nasser Al Khelaifi had earlier this week revealed that the arrival of Messi really generated funds for the membership.

Khelaifi stated, “If we make a signing, it’s as a result of we will. Have a look at the case of Messi. It was the identical, they stated it was financially unattainable and now we have made cash with Messi.”