The highest paid players in the French league
The Brazilian and the Argentine complete the podium of the highest paid players in the French championship
Kylian Mbappé (Paris Saint-Germain) has the highest salary in the French Ligue 1 football and is one of the highest paid athletes in the world, with 6 million euros (6.5 million dollars) gross monthly, according to the classification made by the French sports newspaper L'Équipe.
The 2018 world champion is accompanied on that particular monthly salary podium by two teammates from PSG, the Brazilian Neymar (3.675 million euros or almost 4 million dollars) and the Argentine Lionel Messi (3.375 million euros or 3.665 million dollars).
Paris Saint-Germain occupies the top ten positions in this classification, made annually by journalists from L'Équipe.
The only two players not from PSG among the top sixteen with the highest monthly salary in the Ligue 1 are Wissam Ben Yedder (650,000 euros or 706,000 dollars) from Monaco and Jordan Veretout (550,000 euros or almost 600,000 dollars) from Marseille. AFP