The French newspaper L'Equipe surprised football fans worldwide, especially on the European continent, after it published fictional salaries paid by the most prominent coaches and players in the world, all of them in European leagues. Although it is not a coincidence that the Argentine star and captain of Barcelona, Lionel Messi, leads the list of the highest players in the world in terms of salaries, given his market value, his technical level, and his history with FC Barcelona, but the biggest surprise was for a club not from The first grade, Atletico Madrid, which gives Argentine coach Diego Simeone the highest salary for technical managers in the world, and annually reaches 43.2 million euros, equivalent to 3.6 million euros per month, ahead of Manchester City coach, Spanish Guardiola, who gets 23.2 million Euros a year, and 1.94 million euros monthly.
The other surprise is the salary of the best coach in the world, according to the FIFA Awards and (Globe Soccer) for the last season, the technical director of the German club, Jurgen Klopp, who gets 1.46 per month, the same salary as the Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho, Tottenham coach, who started his mission before Only months, up to 17.5 million euros annually.
As for one of the most famous coaches in the world, who leads the best club in history, Real Madrid, the French Zinedine Zidane, earns less than half of what Simeone gets, or 16.5 million euros a year, and 1.38 million euros per month. On the other hand, the newspaper revealed that the new coach of Barcelona, Spaniard Kiki Citian, receives only half a million euros a month, or six million euros a year.
On the players' level, Messi outperforms everyone, after he renewed his contract two years ago, with an annual salary of 99.6 million euros (including taxes), equivalent to 8.3 million euros per month, and after taxes, the net salary may reach 56 million euros, and is superior to 45 million euros for what Juventus, Cristiano Ronaldo, gets 54 million euros, despite being 35 years old, according to the contract he signed in the summer of 2018.
In third place is Neymar, the Paris Saint-Germain star, with 36 million euros annually (three million monthly), 12 million more than his French colleague Killian Mbappe, who gets 24 million a year (two million monthly) in seventh place. In fourth place is Messi's colleague, Uruguayan Luis Suarez, with 2.7 million euros per month, or 32 million annually, while he completes the list of the first five Welsh Gareth Bale with Real Madrid with 2.5 million euros per month, which is the same salary as his Belgian colleague Hazard, that is, It reaches 30 million euros annually.
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Mohamed Salah is out of the top 10
Egyptian star Mohamed Salah is absent from the list of the top 10, although he is one of the most prominent strikers in the European leagues, and in the European champions Liverpool last season, where he gets approximately 16.1 million euros a year, while in Manchester, Spain's Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea beats him. The highest in the "Premier League" by 21.1 million euros, then Polish Lewandowski and Brazilian Philip Coutinho (currently loaned) with Bayern Munich by 1.66 million euros per month. Also in England, Man City star, Belgian Kevin de Bruyne, and Arsenal player, German Masoud Ozil, is the highest salary at 1.64 million euros per month (19.6 million euros annually).
• The French newspaper "L'Equipe" revealed the highest salaries of players and coaches in the world, with fictional numbers.
• De Gea, Ozil and De Bruyne outperform Salah in the Premier League salary.
• Simeone's salary is more than double that of Zidane ... and the Barcelona coach has a salary of 6 million euros annually.