10 highest-paid players in La Liga this season

Currently, La Liga has some of the world's highest-earning players in the world.
Currently, La Liga has some of the world's highest-earning players in the world.

#3 Eden Hazard (Real Madrid) - £400,000 per week

Eden Hazard's debut season at Real Madrid was plagued by recurring injuries.
Eden Hazard's debut season at Real Madrid was plagued by recurring injuries.

Eden Hazard is Real Madrid's second and final representative in this list with a massive £400,000 weekly wage, almost twice the sum he earned in his final season at Chelsea.

The Belgian winger remained on the sidelines for the better part of the season due to ankle injuries and failed to have the desired impact that was expected when he arrived at the Santiago Bernabeu for £88.5 million last summer.

Luckily for him, he got to lift the La Liga trophy in his first season, and we can only hope that he remains fully fit in the upcoming campaign.


#2 Luis Suarez (FC Barcelona) - £405,000 per week

Suarez developed into one of the world's finest finishers with Barcelona.
Suarez developed into one of the world's finest finishers with Barcelona.

Barcelona have overtaken Real Madrid as the club with the highest wage bill in La Liga and across all football leagues in the world, so it's no wonder that the top two spots in our list go to Barca players.

The second-highest earner in La Liga is Barcelona No.9 Luis Suarez, who pockets £405,000 per week and will continue to do so until the summer of 2021 when his current deal expires.

He has consistently found the back of the net for the Blaugrana in his six-year stay at the Camp Nou. He has scored a goal once every 125 minutes in league fixtures this season, a ratio second only to Messi, who made the net bulge every 115 minutes.

He has a special clause in his agreement that will automatically trigger a one-year extension in his contract, given that he plays 60 per cent of games in the 2020-21 campaign.


#1 Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona) - £1,224,000 per week

Lionel Messi was the highest-earning footballer last year.
Lionel Messi was the highest-earning footballer last year.

There's no big reveal awaiting us at the end of this list because Lionel Messi is unsurprisingly the highest-paid player in La Liga. Given his current weekly wage, he will be remembered in the future as the best-paid footballer of all time.

The 33-year-old is the only footballer in the world who earns a seven-figure weekly wage and his unbelievable £1,224,000-per-week salary is more than twice of what his former teammate Neymar earns at PSG.

This season was only the second campaign in which the Argentine maestro ended without a trophy and that fact, combined with his frustration with the club management, has given rise to rumours that he might be looking to leave the club soon.


Also See: Liverpool: Weekly wages of the champions' first-team stars revealed | Premier League 2019-20

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