Top 10 highest paid footballer
- futbalista
- Jul 19, 2016
- 3 min read
Footballers are seriously well paid, especially for those at top of the professional football are often offered a lucrative contract. Forbes reported that the world’s highest paid football was said to have earned a total of $82million. The ranking below was based on Forbes which was updated in May 2016, before the summer transfer windows open.
10. Cesc Fabregas
Club: Chelsea
Earnings: $21 million
Salary & Bonus: $16 million
The ex-Arsenal captain and Barca player make it to the top 10 highest paid football player chart. The Spanish midfielder return to London in a £30m move from Barcelona, earning £150,000 per week.
9. Eden Hazard
Club: Chelsea
Earnings: $22 million
Salary & Bonus: $18 million
At number 9 is Eden Hazard, the Belgian professional footballer who plays for Chelsea and the Belgium national team. Hazard was transferred to Chelsea from Lilie in 2012, and the transfer fee was reported to be £32m. Based on his new contract which will end in year 2020, Hazard is getting £200,000 per week.
8. Luis Suarez
Club: Barcelona
Earnings: $23 million
Salary & Bonus: $18 million
Last season, the Uruguayan striker finishes as La Liga top scorer, this is the first time in six seasons, someone other than Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi has won the trophy as the top scorer. Suarez is currently banking in £23m per year.
7. Sergio Aguero
Club: Manchester City
Earnings: $24 million
Salary & Bonus: $17 million
Sergio Aguero is the highest paid player in Manchester City. There are speculations about the Argentinian striker will move back to Argentina this summer. However, Aguero vows, "it's been said i would go home if i won the Champions League. But I'm not going to go. I have several years left here." Having Aguero, the second top scorer in EPl who has scored 25 goals last season for the club, Manchester City have got their money's worth out of Aguero.
6. Wayne Rooney
Club: Manchester United
Earnings: $26 million
Salary & Bonus: $20 million
The English National Team and Manchester United captain earning the highest pay in Manchester United. Upon the arrival of Zlatan Ibrahimovic in Old Trafford, Rooney might no longer be the highest paid player in the club.
5. Gareth Bale
Club: Real Madrid
Earnings: $34 million
Salary & Bonus: $24 million
Bale, the Welsh professional footballer banking in $24 million a year. He is the second highest paid player in Real Madrid and the fifth highest paid player in the world. The Welsh man was transferred to Real Madrid at a world record transfer fee of €100.8 million based on a leaked documents.
4. Neymar,Jr
Club: Barcelona
Earnings: $36 million
Salary & Bonus: $14 million
Neymar is the fourth highest paid football player in the world. The Brazilian forward who had only two years left on his previous deal has signed a new contract with Barcelona until year 2021. The buy-out clause in his new deal is set at £167m for the first year, £185m for the second year and as high as £210m for the remaining three years.
3. Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Club: Paris Saint Germain
Earnings: $37 million
Salary & Bonus: $30 million
At number 3 is Zlatan Ibrahimovic from PSG. The Swedish forward who is the top scorer in Ligue 1 last season, has decided to leave PSG to join Manchester United. In one of the interview with MUTV, he admitted that Jose Mourinho is the reason why he join Manchester United. He said, 'He's a winner, I'm a winner and we know both what we want. We want to win. Wherever we go, we win. And we will win.'
2. Lionel Messi
Club: Barcelona
Earnings: $77 million
Salary & Bonus: $51 million
Messi, the Barca’s ace got his lucrative new contract back in 2014, he is getting £275,000 per week making him the second highest paid player in the world behind Cristiano Ronaldo. Messi the only football player in the history to win five FIFA Ballond’or are involved in tax fraud and get 21-month prison term. Messi has been linked to leave Nou Camp, following the tax fraud. However, Messi has clarified that he would only leave Barcelona to move back to his homeland at the end of his career.
1.Cristiano Ronaldo
Club: Real Madrid
Earnings: $82 million
Salary & Bonus: $53 million
With no doubt, the two time FIFA Ballon d’or winner and one time Ballon d’or winner is at the top of the highest paid player chart. Ronaldo is getting £288,000 per week in Real Madrid. Ronaldo moved from Manchester United to Real Madrid back in 2009 for a world record transfer fee and he became the highest paid player in the world since he signed another 5 year deal with Real Madrid back in 2013. So far, 2016 has been a great year for Ronaldo, as he has won another European Champions League title with Real Madrid and also won his first UEFA European Championship with his national side.
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