Leo Messi leads MLS in salaries on a list that also includes Luis Suarez and Busquets

Published:17/05/2024 - 16:04h

Updated:17/05/2024 - 16:04h

U.S. soccer has dropped the base salary of each of the MLS players and, as expected, Leo Messi appears as the leader, although there are several surprises on the list

The association that groups to the footballers that compete in the Major League Soccer (MLSPA) gave to know some smart wages of all the players and in the Top 10 highlights Lionel Messi like absolute leader, something that could foresee . Also they are other exjugadores of the FC Barcelona, included the canterano Riqui Puig, the one who left to the THE Galaxy in 2022, as well as Sergio Busquets, with another place in the podium.

By his part, the rosarino is the one who more wins in the league and also in the Inter Miami, consistently. His annual wage is of 20.400.000 dollars, some 18,8 million euros, a figure very above the ones of his mates of profession, although highlighting whenever all the figures published obey to a theoretical and fixed wage, in which they do not take into account another type of agreements, which in the case of Messi carry it to surpass the 150 'kilos' in the MLS.

What follows to Messi is the Italian Lorenzo Insigne, the one who at present plays in Toronto FC and perceives 15.400.000 -always speaking of dollars- by year. The podium completes it the also exjugador of the Barça, Sergio Busquets, with 8.800.000 of basic wage. It follows him the Swiss Xherdan Shaqiri, of Chicago Fire, with an entry of 8.200.000 by year.

Luis Suárez and Jordi Alba, with agreements a bit more discreet

Already of the fifth to the tenth place are Sebastián Driussi, of Austin FC, with a wage of 6.700.000 dollars; Federico Bernardeschi (Toronto FC) with 6.300.000, Emil Forsberg (New York RB) with 6.000.000, Héctor Herrera (Houston Dynamo) with 5.200.000, Hany Mukhtar (Nashville) with 5.200.000 and Carles Gil (New England Revolution) with 4.500.000. A bit more far, and of surprising way for many, appears the wage of Luis Suárez and Jordi Alba, both with a basic value of alone 1,5 million dollars, being even surpassed by the 2,4 'kilos' reported for Riqui Puig (THE Galaxy).