The 10 highest paid footballers in Europe, including Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi

Huge sums are paid to footballers. And the numbers are only getting bigger.

The teams being forced to offer promising contracts with sums of money to retain their best players, the result is a chain reaction that naturally results in a gradual increase in player salaries.

And they are probably much higher than you think.

French publication The Team publishes its annual report on the highest salaries in football, the 10 biggest winners playing in the Premier League, Serie A, Liga or Ligue 1.

And without dragging on longer, here they are. The 10 best paid footballers in the world.

10. Mesut Ozil – Arsenal – £ 1.4m per month

Arsenal, one of the two Premier League players on the list, has discovered he must continue to pay his star man a salary higher and higher since his arrival in 2013.

There are two main reasons for this: first, keep the prying eyes of potential buyers out of the way, and second, maintain Ozil's motivation.

There is no doubt that Ozil's status as one of the most talented players in the world at the time is represented by his annual £ 16.8 million payroll package.

9. Kylian Mbappe – PSG – £ 1.5m a month

You would probably need to look far to find a 20-year-old richer than Kylian Mbappe.

The PSG striker had roughly the rest of his life tidy at the time of signing for the French giants for £ 154.6m in 2017, knowing that he was getting the most out of his talent and his potential and used his money wisely, he probably would not do it. work for another day of his life.

With him, he earns £ 375,000 a week, it's a good job, he's a good footballer.

8. Alexis Sanchez – Manchester United – £ 1.99 a month

That's enough so that any football lover who has overseen his career in Manchester so far chokes on his morning muesli, which Sanchez gains, may not be entirely justified.

Since he's made the trip to the Northwest last January, Sanchez has not met the expectations of Red Devils fans, many of whom are not satisfied with the sums he's taking in. the club.

With substantial gains that are not fully reflected in his field performance (when he plays), it's hard to imagine the Chilean making a lot of money, much longer at United.

7. Philippe Coutinho – Barcelona – £ 2m per month

Although he himself was desperate to move to Catalonia when Barcelona signed him from Liverpool last January, this does not mean that the occupants of Camp Nou will not pay a lot to Coutinho.

Coutinho is one of three Barcelona players on the list. Considering his salary, he did not move much of the mountains in Barca.

But there is no doubt about his talent and, while taking half a million pounds a week, you can imagine that his best moments in Spain are yet to come.

6. Gareth Bale – Real Madrid – £ 2.2m per month

Only Real Madrid representative on this list, but still included in the La Liga contingent that forms half, Bale is another player who brings him together since his move abroad in 2013.

The Welsh takes a lot of sticks to the faithful of Los Blancos, simply because he is not as good as Cristiano Ronaldo, but it is he who laughs at the end of the day with his results in very good health.

No one knows how long Bale will stay at Bernabeu, but as long as he's still there, he'll continue to earn a huge amount of money.

5. Luis Suarez – Barcelona – £ 2.5m per month

Luis Suarez is in the top five and is among the best on the market in five years. He is considered by many to be the best number nine on the planet.

At least he deserved it at that time.

The Uruguayan striker has huge goals in three of the biggest clubs in the world (Ajax, Liverpool and Barcelona), and in the current market that means the Barcelona striker is making a lot of money.

4. Neymar – PSG – £ 2.7m per month

The teammate of PSG Mbappe and, officially, the most expensive footballer of all time.

Having signed for Barcelona for £ 190.6m in 2017, it would seem silly that the Brazilian does not make a lot of money himself.

With a five-year contract in the French capital for £ 162 million, it's fair to say that the Brazilian striker does not have to play the lottery for a while.

3. Antoine Griezmann – Atletico Madrid – £ 2.9m per month

If you can not know who the first two are, then you probably do not follow football actively. However, in third place, a name may surprise some.

But if you look a little below the tip of the iceberg, you will understand that after years of strong speculation linking him to Barcelona, ​​Atletico will want to hang on to his key man Antoine Griezmann.

And what's better than throwing him tons of money !? With £ 725,000 a week, we do not see the French being too upset if he were to stay in the Spanish capital.

2. Cristiano Ronaldo – Juventus – £ 4.1m a month

And now, the moment you've been waiting for.

When Ronaldo signed last summer, you did not think that Juventus was not going to take care of the five-time winner of the Ballon d'Or, right?

The contract of the Portuguese maverick represents a steep slope among the examples of the working clbad proposed for players 3 to 10 on this list, with him and the next man effectively in a financial league of their own.

1. Lionel Messi – Barcelona – £ 7.3m per month

Of course, who else?

Even if there was not much doubt as to who would be number one, the wide gap between Messi and Ronaldo's deal figures will certainly shock some.

Winning just under 2 million pounds a week, do not be too surprised if the Argentinian wizard finishes his career in the club he signed at the age of 13.

With contracts containing figures that are certainly hard to believe, the combined contracts of Messi and Ronaldo are worth more than double the combination of the two previous players, Neymar and Griezmann.