Is Cristiano Ronaldo fleeing Saudi? Superstar’s £61m private jet leaves the Middle East for Madrid after drone attack on Riyadh’s US embassy
Cristiano Ronaldo’s £61million private jet left Saudi Arabia in the middle of the night in a sign that the football superstar could have fled amid escalating conflict.
Riyadh, where Ronaldo, 41, lives with partner Georgina Rodriguez and his five children, has been struck by Iranian bombs as the fighting enters a fourth day.
The US embassy in the Saudi capital was hit by two drones overnight, and Iranian state media claimed a command and staff building in Bahrain had also been destroyed.
Foreign nationals are fleeing the Middle East in their droves and details of Ronaldo’s jet travelling to Madrid emerged online.
A flight tracker shows the Bombardier Global Express plane made the almost seven-hour journey to the Spanish capital.
The luxury private jet departed at 8:00pm and arrived at almost 1:00am.
Cristiano Ronaldo’s private jet left Saudi Arabia and went to Madrid overnight
Ronaldo, pictured with partner Georgina Rodriguez, bought the jet in 2024
Flightradar24 shows the path Ronaldo’s jet took, jetting over Egypt and the Mediterranean before hitting Spain.
The US State Department had urged Americans to leave more than a dozen Middle Eastern countries due to safety risks.
Anyone east of Egypt was told to depart and a huge number of flights destined for Riyadh overnight were seen turning back, with thousands of foreign nationals desperately trying to get away from the warzone.
In 2024, Ronaldo sold the Gulfstream G200 that he purchased for £16m in 2015 and splashed out on a new Bombardier Global Express 6500 jet worth an eye-popping £61m.
The all-black model has the capacity for up to 15 passengers, and features a number of different rooms, including a seating area with tables and sofas, a suite with a double bed, and a separate shower area.
It is customised with his logo throughout, and decals of his silhouette celebrating a goal in characteristic fashion and only last week was used by Rodriguez on a trip to Milan.
She shared a photo of the journey with her 72 million followers in Instagram, wearing a black bra.
Ronaldo, who earns an astronomical £488,000-a-day for Al-Nassr in the Saudi Pro League, is currently injured.
Rodriguez shared the above image last week on the private jet during a trip to Milan
Smoke billows from a Saudi Arabian site reportedly struck by an Iranian missile
He was forced off during Al Nassr’s 3-1 win over Al Fahya on Saturday and there are now fears over how serious the muscle problem could be, with the World Cup fast approaching.
Regardless, Al-Nassr have had their Asian Champions League Two quarter-final clash against Al-Wasl postponed due to the escalating violence int he Middle East.
Israel and the US launched combined attacks on Iran, killing supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.
Iran has launched retaliatory strikes across the region and at present, six US service members have been killed with a further 18 injured.
Donald Trump boasted of America’s ‘virtually unlimited supply’ of weapons on Tuesday as US Central Command said it destroyed several of Iran’s military assets.
Trump made the claim after threatening retaliation against the Islamic Republic following the regime’s fiery drone strike on the US embassy in Saudi.
‘The United States Munitions Stockpiles have, at the medium and upper medium grade, never been higher or better – As was stated to me today, we have a virtually unlimited supply of these weapons,’ Trump wrote on his Truth Social website.
‘Wars can be fought ‘forever,’ and very successfully, using just these supplies.’
The president said ‘additional high grade weaponry’ is ‘stored for us in outlying countries’ but noted that ‘at the highest end, we have a good supply, but are not where we want to be.’
Trump did not elaborate, but his missive came as analysts begin raising concerns about the number of munitions America has as the campaign continues — particularly air defense missiles.
