Greatest football boot deals with football stars! Messi or Ronaldo is not on top.

Over the time we have seen football stars wearing football boots of the most popular brands like Nike, Adidas and Puma.

Cristiano Ronaldo wears football boots from Nike whereas Lionel Messi dribbles with the Adidas X Crazyfast.1 and Mo Salah curls with the Adidas X Ghosted.1.

If you're a kid wondering why these players get paid for wearing these boots while your parents have to pay for them.

So, the easiest answer is marketing. These boots get noticed by people and fans when they are wearing them and they generate a profit multiple times.

Here's the list of the top 5 boot deals:

5. Kylian Mbappe - £14m

Nike never stops looking out for the most marketable athletes and yet again they've signed the third most marketable player in football currently.

That's right, Kylian Mbappe has a lot fans and people are expecting him to top this list soon.

4. Cristiano Ronaldo - £15m

Even at 40, Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the most marketable football players.

Nike has always invested in talents and have taken risks that have profited them way more than their investments.

Nike signed a lifetime deal with Cristiano Ronaldo in 2016 and they earned an estimated amount of $474 million in the following year.

The fact that Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi is still competing shoulder-to-shoulder with young stars like Killian Mbappe and Erling Haaland is quite phenomenal, and it's not only football but the influence and the mark they have left on the world is quite unimaginable.

3. Lionel Messi - £18m

The argentine legend and another global icon Lionel Messi is in a deal with the giants Adidas.

Just like Nike, Adidas is also eyeing for great athletes all the time.

With their flashy deals and immense brand value, they acquire player deals with ease.

In case Lionel Messi, Adidas offered him a lifetime deal in the year 2017, a year after Ronaldo was offered a lifetime deal.

And according to reports Adidas pays Messi a whopping $30 million per year.

2. Erling Haaland - £20m

The frontman of Manchester City and current second highest scorer of Premier League - Erling Haaland, who has been seen Nike Mercurial Vapor series and Nike Mercurial Dream is clearly a fan of Nike but he was also seen wearing Adidas X Speedportal range during a match of Community Shield.

But he returned with Nike and got the second highest boot deal in the history of football.

1. Neymar Jr. -  £23m

Neymar's previous boot partner was Nike and the deal ended in 2020, a partnership that spanned for 15 years. Neymar on this deal said "I grew up watching videos of great football legends such as Pelé, Cruyff, Matthäus, Eusébio and  Maradona”. 

Neymar continued, “These were the KINGs of the pitch, the KINGs of my sport. I wish to bring back the legacy that those athletes created on the pitch. They each played in PUMA, and each of them created their magic in The KING".