Mbappé earns €6m than Messi and Neymar

French daily L’Équipe reports that Kylian Mbappé earns €72m gross per year.

The France international is the world’s highest-paid sportsman due to his salary at PSG and his lucrative sponsorship deals with brands including Nike, EA Sports and Dior.

Mbappé has the highest salary at PSG, earning €6m per year (€4.62m net), more than Lionel Messi and Neymar. In L’Équipe’s list of the highest-paid players in Ligue 1, the Brazilian striker is in second place with €3.675m gross per month, followed by Messi with €3.375m.

PSG players Marquinhos and Marco Verrati earn €1.2m each, while right-back Achraf Hakimi is on €1.083m, and goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma earns €916,000. Spanish defender Sergio Ramos earns €791,600, Juan Bernat €730,000 and Nordi Mukiele takes home €700,000. Presnel Kimpembe is on €640,000, and Fabián Ruiz and Renato Sanches are on €540,000 each.

The average salary of the PSG squad is €1,016,765m gross per month.

Saudi Arabian club Al-Hilal wants to pay the former Madrid star a figure that even Paris Saint-Germain cannot come close to as renewal doubts grow.