7 Most Astonishing Secret Football Contract Clauses Ever

Five-time Ballon d'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo is known to be a fiercely private person with a very closely-knit unit of friends and family. All employees in the Ronaldo household are obliged to sign a confidentiality clause when entering the Ronaldo mansion. Confidentiality clauses are a very common part of most modern football stars' arrangements with household employees.

Such is the exposure level of elite players to television, social media, and digital/print media platforms, they take stringent steps to ensure anybody working for them is off-limits to the media.

Ronaldo instructs all employees to sign a clause which stated they could not divulge any secrets from within the household for at least 70 years after the great man's death. There was a further sting in the tail for anyone hoping to rush off to the 'tabloids' and make a fast buck.

The clause also stated that if Ronaldo's relatives outlived him, the employees would have to wait until the last member of the Ronaldo dynasty passed away, before imparting any earth-shattering gossip to the press.