Cristiano Ronaldo’s jersey breaks all sales records: Manchester United does not earn the most

Cristiano Ronaldo has always been considered the best jersey seller in football. But the new CR7 shirt at Manchester United broke all sales records in the first few hours.

In the first twelve hours after the start of sales of the new ManUnited jersey with the number 7, the shirt should be loud lovethesales.com have already generated sales of £ 32.5 million (€ 37.93 million). Never before has a Premier League club sold so many shirts from a single player in the first twelve hours of their release.

Lovethesales.com is an English online retailer for discounted branded fashion items and, according to its own statement, used the sales data of 1000 online retailers to count the Ronaldo jerseys.

Manchester United: CR7 kit sales surpass all other Premier League players

Manchester United sells Ronaldo’s jersey in its online shop at prices between 73 euros (baby) and 158 euros (authentic), the standard fan jersey costs 108 euros. Due to the great demand, the jerseys will not be with the fans until the beginning of October, according to the club. But either way, the club is likely to have sold between 300,000 and 400,000 jerseys with the number 7 in the first twelve hours of sales – according to Fox News No other Premier League player has sold as many shirts in the entire current season.

This means that the new shirt from CR7 should have gone over the counter more often than the new shirt from Lionel Messi at his new club PSG. Immediately after Messi’s spectacular move from FC Barcelona AS reports that PSG have already sold 150,000 jerseys in the first seven minutes of sales, generating EUR 20 million in sales. However, the Spanish daily did not name a source for these reports. The club denied further media reports after PSG had already sold 800,000 Messi jerseys in the first week after the transfer.

CR7 sells more kits than Lionel Messi

Cristiano Ronaldo’s jerseys have always been considered more desirable than the shirts of his eternal rival. According to one, by 2020 kickerReported 13.6 million CR7 shirts over the counter. Messi is said to have sold under ten million jerseys, less than the long-retired David Beckham (10.2 million jerseys).

Regardless of how many jerseys United and PSG have actually sold from their new (old) superstars: The only way to refinance their clubs is through jersey sales, neither the transfer and salary for CR7, nor earnest money and salary for Messi. Most of the proceeds from jersey sales do not go to the clubs, but to the outfitters Adidas (Manchester United) and Nike (PSG). According to research by the BBC, United could expect around 5 pounds (5.84 euros) per shirt sold – to refinance Ronaldo’s base transfer fee of 15 million euros alone, the club would have to sell more than 2.5 million shirts.