If Messi leaves, the best paid in LaLiga will be … Simeone

Never has a burofax caused a bigger earthquake than the one sent by Messi to the Barça offices days ago. The Argentine star wants to leave, against the will of Barça and that would leave both the Blaugrana team and LaLiga without the highest paid player in the championship. The more than 50 million euros that Leo is pocketed annually easily lead the monetary classification. A classification in which su first pursuer He hung up his boots a long time ago and works from the band: Diego Pablo Simeone.

El Cholo became, with his last renewal with Atlético in 2019, in the highest paid coach in LaLiga with 24 million euros a year. Ahead of the 21 that Zinedine Zidane pocketed at Real Madrid. Also, after the departure of José Mourinho from Manchester United (he earned 25), he holds the honorary title of highest paid coach in the world.

The following players in this golden classification are still Messi's teammates in Barcelona: Luis Suárez and Antoine Griezmann. According to a list published by L'Equipe, the Uruguayan and the French earn 3 million euros gross per month, which extrapolated to an annual figure and free of taxes would remain in about € 20m each. This would place the trident culé, and Simeone and Zidane, ahead of Gareth Bale and Eden Hazard, players with the best Real Madrid salary (around € 17 M net).

Once Messi's goodbye to LaLiga is confirmed, many will be the aspirants to occupy the sports throne: Hazard and João Félix If you put physical and adjustment problems aside, your own Griezmann if he stands as the Barça figure behind the, more than presumable, marches of his fellow trident, Benzema if it maintains the high level shown or some outsider step forward. However, the economic crown already has an owner when the abdication is confirmed: Cholo Simeone.