the brazilian Neymar He is the player with the largest record in French football, with 4.1 million gross monthly euros, according to a joint report by L’Equipe and France Info public radio, in which Paris Saint-Germain tops the list of the largest salaries.
The Brazilian attacker is followed by the Argentine Leo Messi (3,375 million gross per month) and the French Kylian Mbappé (2,220 million), according to the estimates of these two media.
In the case of Messi, it is specified that he receives a net salary of about 25 million euros per year in addition to a loyalty bonus of 15 million gross, which allows him to slightly exceed 30 million net per year. That supposes that the Argentinian star earns practically the same as Neymar, his friend and his former teammate at FC Barcelona.
After the trio of stars of the PSG, Marquinhos and Verratti arrive (1.2 million gross monthly each), followed by Hakimi (1.08 million), Keylor Navas (one million) and Ángel di María (950,000 euros).
The list of the ten best paid PSG is closed by Wijnaldum and Donnarumma, both with 916,000 euros gross per month. In summary, the average salary of PSG (whose owner is a Qatar sovereign wealth fund) has gone from 800,000 to 990,000 euros gross per month in one season.
Player agent Yvan Le Mée explains this strong increase to the two media by the hiring in the summer of 2021 of numerous free players: Messi, Donnarumma, Wijnaldum and the Spanish Sergio Ramos. The absence of a transfer means that the players can convince the club to get more chips.
Olympique de Marseille is the second club with a more expensive squad (226,000 euros gross per month on average), and Cédric Bakambu and Arkadius Milik stand out (400,000 euros each).
But the second team with the highest individual salaries is Monaco, in which former Sevilla player Wissam Ben Yedder pockets 650,000 euros gross per month and the Spanish Cesc Fábregas 600,000. However, his average (185,000 euros) places him in third place overall. Much more modest are the figures in the fourth largest club in France, Olympique de Lyon, where the highest paid player is Tanguy Ndombélé, with 350,000 euros gross per month, and an average salary of 120,000.
In the women’s league, the best paid player is Kadidiatou Diani (PSG), with 37,000 euros gross per month, that is, 111 times less than Neymar.
PSG also tops, by far, the ranking of the highest paid coach, since the Argentine Mauricio Pochettino takes 1.1 million gross per month, followed by his compatriot Jorge Sampaoli (OM), with 330,000 euros, the same figure that Christophe Galtier (Nice). The Spanish coach Óscar García (Reims), has a salary of about 80,000 euros gross per month.
EFE