So who’re the highest-paid gamers within the Premier League? It is an unimaginable record.
The scale of top-end footballer’s wage packets have been the topic of concern from sure quarters ever since Jimmy Hill efficiently introduced concerning the abolition of the Soccer League’s wage cap in 1961. However so long as broadcasters are able to pay billions for TV rights, groups will reinvest this cash of their enjoying squad.
The most important present earners within the Premier League are a few of the sport’s A-listers. FourFourTwo dives into the info, as per Capology, to see which gamers are raking in essentially the most money forward of the 2024/25 season.
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The very best-paid gamers within the Premier League: 10. Kai Havertz, Arsenal (£280,000 per week)
Kai Havertz in motion for Arsenal (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
The one Arsenal participant on the record, Kai Havertz put pen to paper on a five-year deal when he swapped Stamford Bridge for the Emirates final summer time. His pay packet of £280,000 per week places him simply forward of his teammate, Gabriel Jesus, who narrowly misses out on a spot within the high ten.
=7. Jack Grealish, Manchester Metropolis (£300,000 per week)
Jack Grealish in motion for Manchester Metropolis a (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
The primary – however (spoiler warning) not the final – Manchester Metropolis participant on this record, Jack Grealish signed an enormous six-year contract when he grew to become the most costly English participant of all time in 2021, when Metropolis handed Aston Villa £100million for the winger.
After lacking out on the England squad this summer time, the 28-year-old ought to return with some extent to show this season.
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=7. Bernardo Silva, Manchester Metropolis (£300,000 per week)
Bernardo Silva of Manchester Metropolis
Our subsequent Manchester Metropolis attacker on the record, with the Portuguese being handsomely rewarded for being the participant that Pep Guardiola has chosen greater than every other in his managerial profession. The 29-year-old has two years left to run on this deal, which he signed final summer time.
=7. Marcus Rashford, Manchester United (£300,000 per week)
Marcus Rashford in motion for Manchester United (Picture credit score: Alamy)
Marcus Rashford put pen to paper on a brand new five-year deal when he was coming off the most effective season of his profession to this point final summer time. A testing 2023/24 marketing campaign means the stress is considerably on him to bounce again and show he is well worth the £300,000-a-week in his pay packet.
=5. Romelu Lukaku, Chelsea (£325,000 per week)
Romelu Lukaku (Picture credit score: Getty)
Palms up when you’d forgotten Romelu Lukaku was nonetheless a Chelsea participant? The Belgian ahead nonetheless has one other two years on the five-year deal he signed in 2021, however has not kicked a ball for the membership because the finish of the 2021/22 season, following mortgage strikes to Inter Milan and Roma. At age 31, there’s nonetheless time for but extra baffling strikes in profession that would be the reply to a cracking trivia query when all is claimed and executed.
=5. Raheem Sterling, Chelsea (£325,000 per week)
Raheem Sterling of Chelsea (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
The ultimate Chelsea participant on this record, Raheem Sterling was one in every of Chelsea’s large buys in the summertime of 2022 as he swapped the Etihad for Stamford Bridge in a £47.5million transfer. Whereas he is not matched the shape that noticed him win 4 Premier League titles with Manchester Metropolis, he is been an everyday contributor amid the chaos at Chelsea.
=3. Casemiro, Manchester United (£350,000 per week)
Casemiro in motion for Manchester United (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
The Brazilian midfielder has two years left on the large contract he signed when he accomplished a £60million transfer from Actual Madrid to Manchester United, however given his kind throughout final season’s run-in, that is beginning to appear like one thing of a millstone for the Outdated Trafford aspect.
Casemiro will flip 33 subsequent season and will the Saudi Professional League come calling this summer time, each participant and membership are unlikely to show down a transfer.
=3. Mohamed Salah, Liverpool (£350,000 per week)
Mohamed Salah of Liverpool (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
Liverpool’s sole consultant on the record, the Egyptian icon has simply 12 months left to win on his £350,000-a-week deal that he signed in 2022. Given his talismanic standing at Anfield, no followers can have begrudged the membership paying him this a lot, however the staff will now have one eye out on his successor on the membership.
2. Erling Haaland, Manchester Metropolis (£375,000 per week)
Erling Haaland of Manchester Metropolis (Picture credit score: Alamy)
Metropolis have been capable of land Erling Haaland for simply €60million once they activated his Borussia Dortmund launch clause in the summertime of 2022 and he instantly set about displaying that he was price each penny of his £400,000-a-week wage, breaking the Premier League single-season goalscoring file as Metropolis romped to a historic treble. The Leeds-born Norwegian nonetheless has three years left to run on this present deal.
1. Kevin De Bruyne, Manchester Metropolis (£400,000 per week)
Kevin De Bruyne of Manchester Metropolis (Picture credit score: Michael Regan – UEFA/UEFA through Getty Photos)
It should not be an enormous shock that Kevin De Bruyne tops this record. Normally the most effective participant on the most effective staff within the Premier League, the Belgian has been incomes £400,000-a-week since signing a brand new deal in April 2021. After turning 33 final month and with lower than 12 months remaining on his deal, all eyes are on what occurs subsequent for the mercurial midfielder.
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