Gazzetta dello Sport has revealed its yearly player salary charts, with Juventus’ Gonzalo Higuain the new best-paid player in Serie A.
Every season, the newspaper publishes its calculated list of the salaries and budgets in the Italian top-flight.
For several seasons, Roma’s Daniele De Rossi has been the highest-paid player in the League, but Higuain’s switch from Napoli to Juventus has brought him a contract of €7.5m net per season to De Rossi’s €6.5m.
Gazzetta dello Sport has revealed its yearly player salary charts, with Juventus’ Gonzalo Higuain the new best-paid player in Serie A.
Every season, the newspaper publishes its calculated list of the salaries and budgets in the Italian top-flight.
For several seasons, Roma’s Daniele De Rossi has been the highest-paid player in the League, but Higuain’s switch from Napoli to Juventus has brought him a contract of €7.5m net per season to De Rossi’s €6.5m.
The Bianconeri have the highest player budget in the League at €145m, but Inter are not far behind on €120m.
Roma are third on €92m, with Milan and Napoli spending €80m and €75m on their squads respectively, according to Gazzetta.
As the newspaper notes, however, performance-related bonuses cannot be taken into account which in effect means some players will be taking home much higher salaries.
As an example, Juventus’ playing squad last season had a base salary of €125m, but club account show staff were paid €220m – most of which would of course be players.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Crotone have the lowest budget in the League, reported at just €14m for the season, with Lorenzo Crisetig their top-earner on €400,000 per season.
On the bench, Juventus Coach Max Allegri is the top-earner on €5m net per season after Roberto Mancini left Inter and took his €5.3m salary with him.
Luciano Spalletti is in second place on €3m, with Roma actually paying out the most to Coaches this season.
That is because Rudi Garcia is still under contract for €2.8m net per season, given he has failed to find a new job over the summer.