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Liverpool squad payslips 'leaked' and shows huge worth of Mohamed Salah and others

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Published 10:38 17 Jan 2024 GMT

Liverpool squad payslips 'leaked' and shows huge worth of Mohamed Salah and others

The sums of money are stratospherically different to today.

Ryan Smart

Ryan Smart

A payslip from a historic Liverpool squad has been posted online by a club icon - and shows the true value of Mohamed Salah and others that have more recently starred for the club.

Some elite Premier League players earn incredible amounts of money nowadays, earning upwards of £300,000 per week.

According to TEAMtalk, Manchester City star Kevin De Bruyne earns a cool £400,000 per week, making him the highest-paid player in the English top division.

Those numbers look even bigger in comparison to the days when the old First Division was beginning to enter full swing, with the vast majority of players still needing second or even third jobs in order to maintain a full income.

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Taking to X (Twitter), legendary Liverpool striker John Aldridge revealed that he had found a squad payslip dated August 1960 - and posted a screenshot of the payslip as evidence.

This was at a time when Liverpool were still in the Second Division of English football, and it wouldn't be until 1962 that they were promoted to the top flight under Bill Shankly.

Still, there are plenty of recognisable names in the squad, with several stars, including 1966 World Cup winner Roger Hunt and Ian Callaghan, all earning the highest wage at the club.

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But far from the hundreds of thousands we see today, those players earned £23 a week - around £663 in today's money.

Some players were also awarded the luxury of a £4 bonus, adding around £115 to their weekly wage if they did enough to achieve it.

Coach Bob Paisley, who would later become one of the club's greatest ever managers, took home £17 (around £490 today), while his eventual successor Joe Fagan received £16 (£461) per week.

For those players to have matched Salah's reported £350,000 per week wage - he is Liverpool's highest earner - a player in 1960 would have had to have taken home around £12,150 each week (via in2013dollars), minus bonuses.

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The financial value of the game has certainly changed significantly in the years since.

Featured Image Credit: Getty / Twitter/John Aldridge

Topics: Liverpool, Mohamed Salah, Steven Gerrard, Premier League

Ryan Smart
Ryan Smart

Live in constant hope of the top flight as a Preston North End fan. Written in the past for SPORF, GiveMeSport and more.

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