Real Madrid and Barcelona unsurprisingly dominate the list of the highest-paid players in La Liga.
Nine of the 10 top earners in the Spanish top flight play for one of the big two superclubs. It won’t be a great surprise to see that the other plays for Atletico Madrid.
But which are the 10 individual players that make up the list? There are a couple of surprising names, and a couple of surprising commissions, who will surely be on at their agents to negotiate more dosh when they next sign a new deal.
Here’s the top 10 in full, ordered by their weekly wages*, in the 2022-23 season.
=10. Jan Oblak (Atletico Madrid, €400,577)
Atletico Madrid can’t compete with the European elite for the absolute top-tier wages, but they tend to remunerate their most important figures handsomely.
Take Diego Simeone, one of the top-earning managers in world football. Oblak wasn’t at his best last season at Atleti put up a meek title defence, but he looked unbeatable in their 2020-21 La Liga-winning campaign and for many years before that.
On his day, one of the best goalkeepers in the world and deservedly paid as such.
=10. Jordi Alba (Barcelona, €400,577)
Reports from Spain indicated the left-back was furious Barcelona made an attempt to offload him to Inter without his knowledge. It’s no surprise, given he’s paid a fair whack to turn out for his boyhood club. Why would he want to go anywhere?
=10. Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid, €400,577)
Of course the highest-paid player in Atletico Madrid’s squad is on loan from Barcelona. And, of course, it’s a player they sold to their La Liga rivals for €120million a couple of years back.
Atletico will reportedly be obligated to buy the France international if he plays 45 minutes in half of the games he’s available to them. So far this season he’s been introduced as a substitute after 60 minutes in every game so far.
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7. Toni Kroos (Real Madrid, €421,923)
The German signed a new four-year contract extension back in 2019. At that point he’d won the Champions League in four of the last six seasons and has since added another, as well as two league titles.
Fair enough, really. It will be interesting to see Kroos and Modric follow Casemiro out of the exit door when their deals expire at the…
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