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Mo Salah, Bernardo Silva and Casemiro have left the Premier League and left this list of the Premier League’s highest-paid players.
This ranking is based on base salary only – no bonuses included – with most figures sourced from Capology.
What’s interesting is that new, very expensive signings like Elliot Anderson, Morgan Rogers and Sandro Tonali are not on this list.
Who is the highest-paid player in the Premier League?
8=) Alexander Isak (Liverpool) – £280,000 a week
Isak is being paid £14.56m a year, an increase of 133 per cent on the £120,000-a-week salary he was trousering at Newcastle. Which is not unreasonable since his agent can point to Isak’s status as British football’s most-expensive player. Which he will have to justify when he’s back from injury.
8=) Ryan Gravenberch (Liverpool) – £280,000 a week
Signed a new long-term contract with Liverpool this year and was quite right to ask for pay parity with Isak after his performances helped deliver the 24/25 Premier League title.
8=) Kai Havertz (Arsenal) – £280,000 a week
This is what happens when you sign a footballer from Chelsea; they are already on the kind of money to make you wince. Nobody would surely argue that Havertz is ‘worth’ more to Arsenal than Declan Rice but here we are…
7) Omar Marmoush (Manchester City) – £295,000 a week
Perhaps one of the more surprising names on the list. His agent played a blinder when he moved to City because the striker was only on just north of £33,000 a week at Eintracht Frankfurt.
3=) Jack Grealish (Manchester City) – £300,000 a week
It is no surprise to see Grealish on such an extraordinary salary since it was negotiated when he became English football’s first £100million purchase, before Pep Guardiola had sussed that he didn’t fancy the star after all. Last season Grealish joined Everton on loan, with the Toffees liable for £225,000 a week, making him their highest-paid player by a margin of £100,000 a week, while City topped up the rest. Will that disparity see him reject a permanent move?
3=) Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) – £300,000 a week
Fernandes is reported to want £400,000 a week in a new contract as he probably wisely calculates that he has single-handedly made Manchester United a small fortune by helping them back into the Champions League. And it probably sticks in the craw that he earns the same as…
3=) Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) – £300,000 a week
Now looks set to return to Manchester United after Barcelona neglected to make his loan move permanent. Part of the issue is clearly that massive salary, that he would only receive from a handful of clubs around the world, never mind the Premier League.
3=) Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) – £300,000 a week
All the reports of his recent contract renewal put the figure at ‘in excess of £300,000 a week’, which represents a wage raise of more that £100,000 a week.
2) Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool) – £350,000 a week
Van Dijk is on almost double the salary he signed for when joining Liverpool in 2018. Few would argue the captain hasn’t been worth his money up to last season, but it is now a matter for debate.
1) Erling Haaland (Manchester City) – £525,000 a week
We’re told that there were months of negotiations before Haaland signed his deal for 10 (TEN) seasons which makes us wonder: where the hell was his agents’ starting point?! It is obviously a very cushy deal for Haaland, but also a massive ‘f*** you’ from City to, well, everyone.
