Cristiano Ronaldo already owns a piece of Al-Nassr. Now, according to reports out of Lisbon and Riyadh, he is angling for a great deal more.

A five-investor consortium is in talks with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund about acquiring a stake in the Riyadh club, with Ronaldo listed alongside RedBird Capital founder Gerry Cardinale, the American whose RedBird Capital owns AC Milan, and three Saudi partners. No financial terms have been confirmed, and Al-Nassr has not commented.

The plan being described would keep Ronaldo at the club long after his playing days end. Under the arrangement outlined by A Bola and 365Scores Arabic, he could simultaneously hold an ownership stake and an executive position focused on the first team and sporting operations, not the day-to-day running of the entire club.

Contract runs to June 2027

Ronaldo’s playing deal expires in June 2027, after the two-year extension he signed in June 2025. talkSPORT reporter Ben Jacobs said last week that Ronaldo is likely to leave Al-Nassr in the summer of 2027 and could retire from professional football at that point, although a further one-year extension has not been ruled out.

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Ronaldo himself has been laying out the timeline.

“This is probably my last year of football, and I want to leave a spectacular legacy,” he told Vogue in August.

He will be 42 at the end of the 2026-27 season and sits 21 goals short of 1,000 in official matches, a personal target he has referenced openly for more than a year.

The Beckham blueprint, reworked

The template is familiar. David Beckham used a purchase-option clause from his LA Galaxy contract to launch Inter Miami, an MLS franchise he now co-owns and fronts commercially, with Lionel Messi’s 2023 arrival turning the project into a global commercial force.

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Ronaldo’s version differs in two important ways. He would not be building a club from nothing but reshaping an established one with regional-power ambitions, and he already has a second investment on his ledger: in February 2026 he acquired a 25% stake in Spanish second-tier side Almería.

The Al-Nassr piece would be the biggest of them. 365 Scores has reported his existing holding at around 15%, valued at approximately £50m at the time of the deal, and described a longer-term ambition to move toward a majority position.

What Al-Nassr has actually said

Nothing on the record. Neither the club nor Ronaldo has addressed the consortium report or the 2027 exit timeline. Saudi journalist and former Al-Nassr spokesperson Saud Al-Sarami has told local media that “Cristiano is no longer at his best at Al-Nassr, and I think he will leave during the winter transfer window,” a comment that carries no official standing.

His playing contract runs to June 2027. The 15% stake, reported at around £50m in value, sits with him already.

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