3) Barcelona – £203,000 a week
The La Liga club’s wage bill was notoriously high before president Joan Laporta began to make some sweeping cuts following his re-election in 2021.
Lionel Messi was the most high-profile casualty of the new regime’s cost-cutting measures.
The top earner currently is Frenkie de Jong, who earns an astonishing €721,000 a week. Sergio Busquets (€711,500 a week) is second on the list but he is expected to leave the Camp Nou at the end of the season.