What unreal numbers: As the French sports newspaper “L’Équipe” revealed on Tuesday, the five highest-paid professionals in the English Premier League earn more than 100 million euros a year. Striking: Four players in the quintet are under contract with Manchester United.
Footballers who manage to get a place in the Premier League have in many cases secured themselves for life. Especially around Old Trafford, the stars rake in lavish salaries. The Red Devils have been running behind expectations in terms of sport for years.
Nevertheless, the bosses of United opened the box last summer and landed three newcomers with crazy offers.
As a “L’Équipe” article shows, Cristiano Ronaldo (about 31.5 million euros pa) is the top earner in the league, the former BVB attacker Jadon Sancho (about 21 million euros) in fourth place and Defense ace Raphael Varane (approx. 18.6 million euros) rose to the top 5 of the Premier League straight away after three summer transfers from the traditional club.
In addition, there is Manchester’s Spanish goalkeeper David De Gea, who occupies third place in the income ranking with almost 23 million euros.
Ex-BVB star Sancho has so far earned 2.6 million euros per goal participation
United’s “dominance” is only broken by one player from city rivals City: Kevin De Bruyne, once active in the Bundesliga for Werder Bremen and VfL Wolfsburg, brings in an incredible 24.5 million euros a year and is therefore the number behind CR7 two.
Meanwhile, the figures prove that a galactic salary does not have to be synonymous with sporting success. Because: With the exception of Ronaldo, who, as usual, stands out with his airs and graces off the pitch, but is usual accurate on the field, the United newcomers have done little self-promotion so far.
Sancho, for example, has only collected eight scorer points in 33 appearances (five goals, three assists), which currently makes the equivalent of almost 2.6 million euros per goal participation.
You don’t have to be a financial expert to realize that the Red Devils haven’t worked out at all up to this point…