• Real Madrid second; Manchester United highest British club
Barcelona have become the first sports team in history with average first-team pay in excess of £10m a year, according to the latest Global Sports Salary Survey, which also shows the extent to which wages are spiralling across all sports.
This season the Spanish champions will pay its 23-man squad an average of £10.45m, before bonuses, a figure that has risen by a third since 2017-18. Much of that is down to signing Lionel Messi to a new deal that pays him in excess of £50m a year, although signing Phillippe Coutinho, Arthur, Malcom and Arturo Vidal, and handing Gerard Piqué, Sergi Roberto, Samuel Umtiti and Sergio Busquets lucrative extensions has also significantly swollen the payroll.
Written by Sean Ingle
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/nov/25/barcelona-team-average-10m-year-wages-sporting-intelligence under the title “Barcelona become first sports team to average £10m a year in wages”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
