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Released Ligue 1 Wages Show How Far Ahead Of The Competition Neymar Is

Released Ligue 1 Wages Show How Far Ahead Of The Competition Neymar Is

The PSG star is one of the best paid players in world football.

Ryan Sidle

Ryan Sidle

Was there any doubt that Neymar was going to be the best paid player in Ligue 1? The wages of the highest paid players in France's top tier have been revealed and the PSG star is comfortably number one.

Not sure if any of you saw the news last summer but Neymar became the most expensive player ever when PSG forked out £198 million for his services and quite a lot in agent fees and wages no doubt.

Check out what teenager Martin Odegaard could spend his wages on:

The Brazilian had already become one of the best players in the world but he wanted away from Lionel Messi at Barcelona so he could cement himself as THE number one, money had nothing to do with it obviously.

Since moving to Ligue 1 the former Santos forward has run amok. The 26 year old has 18 league goals in just 17 games as the Parisians have raced to the top of the league.

But his goals haven't come cheap. In fact in wages they've come at roughly £900k-a-goal! L'Equipe report that Neymar earns a ridiculous £2.7 million-a-month:

Ligue 1
Ligue 1

That's nearly twice as much as his teammate, and PSG's leading scorer of all time, Edinson Cavani in second place and more than twice as much as Kylian Mbappe, although as he's still a teenager he'll probably be pretty happy with where he is.

12 of the top 13 places go to PSG players with Radamel Falcao at Monaco the only exception within all the players from his side's rivals.

Hatem ben Arfa is reportedly earning €500k-a-month without having to play a single minute of football for his club so far this season, nice job if you can get it!

L'Equipe, via Sport Witness, also show how much players from other leagues are reportedly earning with Lionel Messi apparently stupid amounts ahead of everyone else:

wages
wages

That's a lot of money!

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Topics: Football News, Ligue 1, PSG, Neymar, France