Here is your Forbes Daily Briefing for Saturday, October 19th.

Today on Forbes, the world's highest paid soccer players, 2024.

A year after Saudi Pro League clubs shelled out roughly $1 billion on transfers,

the market has cooled considerably.

But for the superstars who paved the path to the Middle East,

the Saudis' checks still clear.

Four players from the Saudi Pro League

now rank among the world's 10 highest paid soccer players,

counting both their on-field salaries this season and their annual earnings from

endorsements memorabilia and other business endeavors.

England's star-studded Premier League claims only three spots

while Spain's La Liga

Nabs 2 and the US's major league soccer has a lone representative

Leon O'Messie.

Here are the top five.

At number five is Killian and Mbape with 90 million dollars.

After years of rumors, Mbape has finally realized his childhood dream of joining

Rial Madrid.

But the 25-year-old French star continues to battle his old club, Paris St. Germain,

over roughly $60 million in unpaid wages in a salary dispute that is headed to court.

His departure has been felt all across French soccer.

League-A-N, the nation's top tier, fell far short of the 1.1 billion dollars

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