Salaries in the light: the enormous difference between LaLiga and Premier

With the debate on the money that soccer moves every year still in the air, BeSoccer has prepared a report in which it sets out in detail the problem of wages in the five major leagues on the European continent. In the, Barcelona and Real Madrid are presented as the two clubs that pay the highest average salary, but that does not make LaLiga pay more than the Premier. Rather, the difference between both competitions is huge. More contrast still occurs in the lower part of the table, where the most humble do not even pay a million on average to their players, half that in England.

Barcelona and Real Madrid, leaders in payment

Always according to the BeSoccer study, Barcelona is the team in Europe that pays the highest average salary, with 10.84 million euros per player. Some are detailed as the 23 million Coutinho, the 15 of Busquets or the 10 of Sergi Robert. What's more, Messi He is still the highest paid on the planet and there is not a single center forward within reach of Griezmann. Not even Cristiano, who would earn three million less per season.

Real Madrid does not reach ten million on average, but it stays close: € 9.94M. BeSoccer estimates the salary of Bouquets, at 18 that of Kroos or at 23 the Eden Hazard. Despite the fact that the Premier pays higher salaries than in Spain, there is a notable difference between the first two and the third drawer of the podium. The United he occupies it, with an average salary of 7.55. It is followed by PSG, with 7.13; the City, with 7.06; and the Bayern, with 6.90. They complete the 'Top 10' the Juventus, the Chelsea, the Liverpool and the Atlético de Madrid.

Three Spaniards in the top ten, but only one more sneaks into the 'Top 40': the Seville, in position 39. Paradoxical as it may seem, the vast majority of English are located ahead of the recently champion of the Europa League. Some examples are the Leeds United, the Wolverhampton, the Fulham, the Southampton or the Burnley. Thus it is understood that Marcelo Bielsa could sign Rodrigo Moreno from Valencia for 30 million euros, despite being a recently promoted.

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The inequality between big and small

BeSoccer also lists the percentage of salaries that a team pays with respect to the total of LaLiga and it is here where the greatest differences between the different clubs are appreciated. Barcelona pays 23.78%, Madrid, 21.14%; and Atlético, 10.38% on the total of the competition. Namely, between the three they add up to 55.3% Or, put another way, the sum of the salaries of the big three is higher than the sum of the other 17 clubs. Between the leader and Sevilla, fourth, there is almost a 20% difference.

In England it is different. The highest peak is recorded by United, with 11.03% of the league's total salary. City is the other that exceeds 10%. Not counting the 'Big 6', Everton appears with 6.19% and an average salary per footballer of 4.24 million euros. This amount is close to that of Atlético de Madrid, despite the fact that the rojiblancos fight for the championship and Everton usually fight to get into Europe. Another example that shows the difference between the two competitions is that the third lowest paying in England (Brighton) pays more money to its players on average than Sevilla.

The Premier, therefore, has a more equitable distribution, although also a greater economic potential than LaLiga. But is the case of the English special? In Italy, eight teams surpass Sevilla in payment of their footballers: Juventus, Inter, Naples, Rome, Lazio, Milan, Fiorentina and Atalanta. In France, on the contrary, only three do it: PSG, Lyon and Monaco. In Germany, six: Bayern, Dortmund, Monchengladbach, Leipzig, Leverkusen and Wolfsburg.

With regard to the contrast between small and large, only in France are the levels reached in LaLiga Santander. PSG pays practically a quarter of the total salary of the championship and leads by almost 20 points to the fourth classified: Marseille. The Bayern, despite its undeniable dominance, it only exceeds eleven points Gladbach or Leipzig. The Juve, for its part, is five percentage points above Inter.

Salaries by objectives

Spain has a problem with the teams below. BeSoccer has studied the average salary of the last six classified in the table and the data does not leave LaLiga Santander in a good place compared to the other major European leagues. In the Premier, relegation candidates pay an average of two million euros to their players, which implies that those who stand out in another competition, but do not have the level to make the leap to a great, bet on landing in England before in another destination.

But not even LaLiga follows closely the English tournament. The Bundesliga is in second position, paying 1.16 million euros. Serie A would pay 1.03 and only Ligue 1 is placed below the national tournament: 0.81 compared to 0.99. On the contrary, the greats do chase the greats of the Premier. The 'Big 6' and his companions pay 5.1 million on average, while the first seven of the First Division (largely due to the help of Madrid and Barcelona) pay 4.42 on average.

Infographics via BeSoccer.