Top 10 highest earners at Barcelona following Lionel Messi’s departure

For a long time now, Lionel Messi has been Barcelona’s highest wage earner, and rightfully so. Not just for his performances on the pitch, but also the revenue his name generated for the club, his position at the top was justified.

Now, after his departure from the club has been confirmed, L’Equipe has brought out the list of the new top 10 earners at the club. The list is altho more important right now given the club’s tight wage bill and inability to register new signings.

The list goes as the following:

1. Griezmann – €20m net

2. Coutinho – €14m net

3. Busquets – €12m net

4. Jordi Alba, Piqué, Dembélé – €10m net

7. Frenkie de Jong – €8m net

8. Pjanic, Umtiti – €7m net

10. Agüero – €6m net

The new top wage earner at the Catalan club is Antoine Griezmann with 20 million euros net. It is this figure combined with his relatively underwhelming performances that led to the Frenchman being booed after Lionel Messi’s exit.

Phillipe Coutinho, who has been an invisible figure at the club, is the second-highest wage earner with 14 million Euros.

Barcelona’s new captain and midfield maestro Sergio Busquets stands third with 12 million Euros net for a season.

In fourth place stand three players, Jordi Alba, Ousmane Dembele, and Gerard Pique. Though Alba and Pique are regular players and long-time servants of the club, Dembele’s wages are astronomically high compared to his contribution.

The seventh highest earner in the club is Frenkie de Jong, who nets eight million euros a season.

Samuel Umtiti and Miralem Pjanic, two players who hardly stepped onto the pitch in the last year, stand as joint eighth with seven million Euros net.

The tenth highest wage earner at the moment is new signing Serio Aguero. As was decided in his contract, the Argentine will earn six million euros net per season.