Neymar tops list as PSG pay 12 of 13 highest Ligue 1 salaries

Neymar’s gross salary at PSG is over €3 million. Photo: Benoit Tessier/Reuters

Neymar’s gross salary at PSG is over €3 million. Photo: Benoit Tessier/Reuters

Published Feb 6, 2018

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Paris Saint-Germain pays 12 of the 13 largest player salaries in the French league, led by Neymar, who makes €3.07 million gross a month, more than twice as much as the next highest earner, sports daily L’Equipe reported on Tuesday.

Behind Neymar, PSG players occupy the next seven places – Uruguayan Edinson Cavani makes €1.54 million a month, French teenager Kylian Mbappe earns €1.5m and Brazilian defender Thiago Silva makes €1.33m.

Then come Argentine midfielder Angel di Maria and Brazilian defender Marquinhos, both on €1.12m, Italian midfielder Thiago Motta (€875 000) and Argentine Javier Pastore (€770 000).

The first non-Parisian on the list is Radamel Falcao, the Colombian striker who earns €750 000 a month and, because he is in Monaco, pays no taxes.

The top ten is rounded out by Dani Alves, another Brazilian defender at PSG, who makes €700 000. Next come three more PSG stars – German striker Julian Draxler and Italian playmaker Marco Verratti both make €600 000.

PSG’s French striker Hatem Ben Arfa is tied on €500 000 a month with two Marseille players, the former West Ham player Dimitri Payet and Brazilian Luiz Gustavo.

At the other end of the Ligue 1 salary table are Amiens, where the average monthly salary is €15 000, including three players on just €2 800.

Since the sacking of the Marcelo Bielsa, who was making €560 000 a month to coach Lille before he stormed out, PSG’s Unai Emery has become the highest earning manager on €450 000 a month. 

Next comes another man working tax-free in Monaco, Leonardo Jardim, on €350 000, closely followed by Claudio Ranieri, who won the English Premier League with Leicester in 2016 and makes €340 000 a month in Nantes.

AFP

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