Serie A Wages.

[mancity dan]

Interesting read. Pogba is only on £23k a week. I think the figures quoted are after tax.

Paul Pogba earning £23,000-per-week at Juventus compared to Radamel Falcao's £280,000-per-week as Serie A's annual salaries reflect decline of Italy's top league
Serie A reveal annual salaries of each player
Paul Pogba earning just £23,000-per-week at Juventus despite world-class talent
Radamel Falcao earning £280,000-per-week at Manchester United
Daniele De Rossi is Serie A's highest earner with £100,000-per-week deal
Ashley Cole earning £35,000-per-week after signing with Roma this summer
Nemanja Vidic becomes Inter Milan's top earner on £50,000-per-week
Figures show decline in Italy's top league as Premier League and La Liga wages dwarf Italian figures
Samuel Eto'o was earning £160,000-per-week at Inter Milan in 2009

By Ashley Clements for MailOnline Follow @@Ashley_Clements

Published: 11:56, 9 September 2014 | Updated: 12:52, 9 September 2014

Serie A's top earners


1. Daniele de Rossi - £100,000-per-week

2. Gonzalo Higuain - £84,000-per-week

3. Carlos Tevez - £70,000-per-week
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As the annual salaries of every Serie A player were released on Monday, there seems to be little doubt that the Italian league is falling behind Europe's top leagues.

According to Gazzetta dello Sport, Serie A clubs are now spending close to a combined £500million less on wages compared with 2011 as even the league's highest earners collect far less than Premier League and La Liga stars.

Paul Pogba, for example, is set to earn just £23,000-per-week this season despite being one of the most talented young midfielders in the world and a player Juventus will no doubt hope to keep hold of.

Juventus, however, do lead the way in money spent on wages and are the only Italian club to increase their wage bill from the 2013/14 season with the likes of Carlos Tevez and Arturo Vidal earning upwards of £60,000-per-week.

Roma star Daniele De Rossi can boast that he is Roma's highest earner with a contract worth £5.2m excluding any bonuses.

Former Chelsea star and Roma new boy Ashley Cole decided to move to Italy after failing to agree a contract extenstion with the Blues and has signed up to earn around £35,000-per-week with Rudi Garcia's side.

Cole's former England team-mate Micah Richards decided to follow in the left back's footsteps and head to Italy in search of first-team football with Fiorentina.

The 26-year-old is set to earn £26,000-per-week with his new club and becomes Fiorentina's fourth highest earner behind Mattia Perin, Nicolas Burdisso and Mario Gomez.

Elswhere, former Manchester United captain Nemanja Vidic will recoup around £50,000-per-week as he shares the highest earner at Inter Milan award with Argentine forward Rodrigo Palacio, with both set to earn a minimum of £2.5m for the 2014/15 season.

After a difficult three years with Chelsea, Fernando Torres has finally searched for pastures new after signing a two-year loan deal with AC Milan.

The Spanish striker slips straight into the club's highest earner spot and will collect close to £61,000 each week - nowehere near his £175,000-per-week deal in west London.

The decline in wages, and perhaps the decline is Italian football is clear to see when looking at the pay of Inter's highest earner Samuel Eto'o during the 2009/10 season.

Inter's second highest earner Patrick Vieira was quite a way off Eto'o's figures but still managed to collect £84,000-per-week.

The figures are also a stark contrast to that of the highest earners elsewhere with the likes of Gareth Bale, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi all earning over £200,000-per-week to ply their trade in La Liga.

De Rossi's highest-earner tag is dwarfed by the Premier League's top earner Wayne Rooney, who can boast a stunning £300,000-per-week.


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[BigOscar]

Pretty sure most wage statistics for Italy are given as after tax, as opposed to England where we say what it is before tax, but it still is hugely different to the premier league. I don't think people realise just how much money is in England compared to the other leagues. Even relegation battlers now have higher wage bills than the top teams in other countries, with the new tv deal it's only going to get more out of context. I'm pretty sure Fernando signed a deal to be the highest paid player in Portugal for the final 6 months of his contract, and that was only something like £30k a week. I seem to recall QPR had a higher wage bill in the Chmapionship than Dortmund did when they got to the CL final?

 

[BlueTG]

"earns just £23,000 a week"

Fuck off.

 

[bluethrunthru]

"earns just £23,000 a week"

Fuck off.

I thought that................ didn't want to appear churlish........... just shows how far away from the likes of us footballers are in terms of incomes and there is no doubt that the rewards here in England are a factor in the demise of the national side - the attracting of foreign talent but more importantly the removal of the need to become a better player for a young Englishman when a journeyman can be a millionaire in short order is now biting hard - remember there is no fighter better than a hungry fighter.

 

[quiet_riot]

I'd be happy with 23k a year tbh!

 

[hertsblue]

Surprised Cole didn't almost crash his car again when offered just 35k a week

 

[Ahmed]

Tevez & Evra didn't go to Italy to earn three times less than they had in England. He's on 6,5 M € after tax there.

Pogba is on 5 M € per year after tax. That's like 200 k€ /week Gross salary.

 

[Burtonblue]

Tevez & Evra didn't go to Italy to earn three times less than they had in England. He's on 6,5 M € after tax there.

Pogba is on 5 M € per year after tax. That's like 200 k€ /week Gross salary.

That sounds much more like it.
I suspect the "average" serie A salary will be much lower than the PL but superstar salaries must be vaguely comparable to attract players such as Tevez and Higuain.
Pogba may well have originally signed for Juve for £23k a week from the scum at a time when he was young and unproven, but any self respecting agent (sorry about the contradiction in terms) will have ensured that is not the case now!

 

[Tez Tosterone]

The two top earners at Juve are

Gianluigi Buffon and Carlos Tevez. Both receive €4.7m pa
Next are Georgio Chiellini, Arturo Vidal and Claudio Marchisio who earn between €4m and €4.2m pa

Only yesterday Juve transfer chief Beppe Marotta brushed aside claims that Juve were offering Edinson Cavani a package of €7.5m pa in an attempt to prise the forward away from PSG.

He stated that nothing would currently allow the current wage structure ceiling of €5m to be exceeded because it would destabilise the current wage structure at the club.