Kylian Mbappé has “probably the highest salary in the history of world sport”, according to the “football” editor of L’Equipe

Kylian Mbappe has “arguably the biggest salary in the history of world sport”, said Thursday March 30 on franceinfo Lionel Dangoumau, editor-in-chief of the football department at the newspaper L’Equipe. The sports daily has unveiled its ranking of the highest paid players this season in Ligue 1, led by the new captain of the France team whose gross monthly salary reaches 6 million euros.

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“Since he signed his new contract with PSG at the end of last season, Kylian Mbappé has reached a rather spectacular milestone in terms of his income”, explains Lionel Dangoumau. The journalist points out that this ranking does not take into account the “colossal bounties” that the PSG striker perceives. This “Pharaonic contract partly convinced him to stay at PSG when we know that he was courted by Real Madrid last year”he says.

A “historic gap” between PSG and other Ligue 1 clubs

Another lesson to be learned from this ranking is the omnipresence of the Parisian club. The Top 10 is entirely made up of PSG footballers, which is “quite logical”according to Lionel Dangoumau, given the PSG budget “very superior to those of other French clubs, including those at the top of the table like OM or Monaco”. The editor-in-chief of L’Equipe’s football service explains that these high salaries concern both the “players with more experience and higher ratings” internationally, but also “players who are a little less star who have salaries that are not commensurate with [footballeurs] who play in the same position in other French clubs”.

There is therefore a “historic gap” between PSG and the other Ligue 1 clubs, especially since “PSG went for players like Neymar and Messi who had some of the highest salaries in the world at their former club”.

If we rely solely on the remuneration set by the club of the capital, “this ranking places us in the upper bracket of the big European clubs”, adds Lionel Dangoumau. He nevertheless wishes to point out that clubs like Monaco, Olympique de Marseille and Olympique Lyonnais “are in a second bracket, behind the fifteen European clubs which are the most profitable for their players”.