Mbappé alone in the world
With the departures of Lionel Messi and Neymar last summer, Kylian Mbappé sits at the top of the Championship salary rankings, which resembles a Formula 1 race with Bondy’s crack in the role of Max Verstappen.
An Olympic year
“Classic” Parisian salaries remain very high, even if only one crazy one remains and the PSG payroll is better controlled. Although far behind, OM and OL did not skimp. Marseille had pulled out all the stops to attract Alexis Sanchez (€500,000/month)? He offered much more to his successor Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and gave almost as much as the Chilean to Joaquin Correa, twenty minutes in L1 since the end of November.
As for Lyon, it translated its hyperactive winter into wages, during which it was the biggest spending club in Europe (€56 million). Three of his January recruits appear in his top 10, including Nemanja Matic who, with half a million per month, joins Alexandre Lacazette at the very top of the Rhone pyramid.
And then there are the Monegasque salaries, a little misleading regarding foreign players, for whom the gross and net of taxes are not far from being equivalent.
Gaps that sting
Then, there are those who potentially have big means but refuse to splurge, like Rennes and Nice, where some of them earn around €200,000 per month, without bonuses.
And then there are the others. And there, the gap widens. Of the 12 most “modest” clubs in the Championship, only 3 players pass the €200,000 monthly mark: Nantais Moussa Sissoko and Lensois Brice Samba and Elye Wahi. This is not much, especially for certain clubs with potentially tenfold resources.
Despite the arrival of BlueCo, Strasbourg emoluments have not really taken off. That of Bill Foley in Lorient as a minority shareholder made it possible to recruit Benjamin Mendy or Tiémoué Bakayoko. But the Merlus budget (€80 million) is not yet that of a natural candidate for Europe.
The most modest will no longer receive money from CVC
And for those who are not backed by a wealthy foreign owner, the future does not necessarily look bright. Firstly because the clubs will begin to see the face of the agreement signed in 2022 with the investment fund CVC Capital Partners which, in exchange for 1.5 billion euros, will receive for life 13% of the LFP income. And this for many reasons.
The most modest have already received the €33 million promised between the summer of 2022 and 2023. This summer, only PSG, OM, OL, Monaco, Rennes, Nice and Lille have yet to receive their third share of the jackpot. Then, because if CVC had committed not to receive any income before the summer of 2024, it did not necessarily give up its share and, from July, it will be necessary to make up for past seasons. Catch-up estimated by the League at €106.8 million, which will obviously be added to the first cuts of 13%.
These cuts will cause clubs’ revenues to drop, unless TV rights take a big leap forward. But, for the moment, the amount of future rights is written with a big question mark.
2024-03-20 23:00:00
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