Liverpool announced on Friday the signing of a new “long-term” contract with its Egyptian star, Mohamed Salah, who joined his ranks in 2017.
Liverpool did not announce the value and duration of Salah’s contract, but English media revealed that the new contract would keep the Egyptian pharaoh at Anfield until 2025.
Only the Paris Saint-Germain trio, French international Kylian Mbappe, Argentine star Lionel Messi, and Brazilian Neymar da Silva are now superior to Salah in the list of the highest paid players in the world of football.
Mbappe tops the list of the highest paid players in the world with a weekly salary of one million pounds, followed by his teammate Messi with 960,000, followed by Neymar with 606 thousand.
Salah came fourth in the list, surpassing the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, the Manchester United star, who fell to fifth place, with a weekly salary of 385,000 pounds, which is the same as the salary of Belgian Kevin De Bruyne with Manchester City.
And the newcomer to Manchester City, the Norwegian international Erling Haaland, came in seventh place with a salary of 375,000 pounds, the same wages paid by the Spaniard David de Gea, Manchester United goalkeeper.
The Frenchman, Antoine Griezmann, loaned from Barcelona to Atletico Madrid, came in ninth place, with a salary of 356,000 pounds per week, and Bayern Munich striker, Polish international Robert Lewandowski, completed the list of the ten highest paid players in the world by obtaining 350 thousand pounds per week.
