Europe’s best-paid footballers list REVEALED: L’Equipe name ‘big five’ top earners… with £1.73m-a-month Kevin De Bruyne eclipsed by two stars abroad – and two United players in Premier League’s list
Kylian Mbappe earns more than twice as much as any other player in Europe, according to a new report.
25-year-old France and PSG star Mbappe has shone in Paris since joining as an 18-year-old, but informed the club in February that he would leave when his contract expires this summer.
The forward’s future has been a long-running saga, with Mbappe almost joining Real Madrid in the summer of 2022 before making a late U-turn and penning a new contract with the Ligue 1 side.
And according to a new report in L’Equipethat contract made Mbappé the highest-paid player in Europe’s top five leagues, with the forward earning as much as €6 million (£5.15 million) every month.
This makes him the highest paid player in Europe and the report claims he earns more than twice the salary of the second player on the list, Bayern Munich’s Harry Kane.
According to L’Equipe, Kylian Mbappé is the highest-paid player in the top five European leagues
Mbappe’s salary of £5.15 million per month is more than double that of the second on the list, Harry Kane
Man City playmaker Kevin De Bruyne is third, collecting a reported monthly wage of £1.73 million
The England captain has starred since moving to Germany last summer for a fee that could rise to £100 million. He scored 37 goals and added 12 assists in 35 games.
The report claims that Kane earns €2.10m (£1.80m) a month, making him the Bundesliga’s highest-paid player, while narrowly ahead of Man City playmaker Kevin De Bruyne in the top 10, with brings in the Belgian. €2.02 (£1.73 million) every four weeks.
De Bruyne is joined in the top 10 by City teammate Erling Haaland, who earns €1.90 million every month.
However, Mail Sport understands that while Haaland receives a basic salary in line with the other higher earners at the Etihad Stadium, a series of substantial, almost guaranteed bonuses will take his weekly wages above £850,000.
This means the Norwegian earns closer to the £3.4 million per month mark, which would put him second on the list.
The top five includes a Real Madrid star, but not the one you might expect as Austrian defender David Alaba receives a monthly salary of €1.88m (£1.61m).
Robert Lewandowski and Mohamed Salah are sixth and seventh, with the pair earning €1.87 million (£1.60 million) and €1.77 million (£1.52 million) respectively.
Two Man United stars feature in the top 10, completing the Premier League’s top five earners, with Casemiro on the same wages as Salah at €1.77 million (£1.52 million), while Raphael Varane on €1. 72 million (£1.48 million).
Erling Haaland and Mohamed Salah are ranked fourth and seventh respectively in the top 10 list
Casemiro and Raphael Varane make up the Premier League’s top five highest earners
In joint tenth place on L’Equipe’s list are Real Madrid teammates Vinicius Jnr and Jude Bellingham, Barcelona’s Ilkay Gundogan and Atletico Madrid’s Jan Oblak, with the quartet all earning a reported €1.67 million (£1.43 million) per month.
L’Equipe’s list includes 25 players, with the other notable player being Napoli’s Victor Osimhen, whose monthly salary of €1.50 million puts him as the 16th highest-paid player in Europe, while PSG and France star Ousmane Dembele is in 19th place with wages of €1.12 million (£961,000) per month.
The report also covers the top earners in each European league, with the individual records for Ligue 1 showing that PSG have the 10 highest paid stars in France, demonstrating their financial power.
Elsewhere, Bayern and Germany veterans Manuel Neuer and Thomas Müller are the joint 14th highest-paid players in Europe, with both stars earning €1.66m (£1.42m) every month.