Forbes recently announced their list of highest paid athletes but no one cares about any other sports besides football so for your convenience here is the top 10 list for footballers only:
10. Antoine Griezmann - $27.7 million.
Griezmann is one of the top players in La Liga and he won the 2018 World Cup with the French national team so he's had a great last 12 months. Expect his earnings to go even higher next year now that he's signed with Barcelona.
9. Oscar - $29 million.
Remember him? Yup, Oscar is still alive and clearly doing very well in China where he earns more money than even his former teammate Hazard earned at Chelsea. No wonder these players (and managers) keep running off to China...
8. Mesut Ozil - $30.2 million.
Arsene Wenger's parting gift to Arsenal was a bumper contract extension to Mesut Ozil and boy oh boy does it keep looking worse with every Ozil sleepwalking non-performance! No one else will pay Ozil anywhere near what he's earning at Arsenal so unless he takes it upon himself to take a pay cut somewhere else this contract will continue to be an albatross around The Gunners' wage bill.
7. Kylian Mbappe - $30.6 million.
Mbappe is still only 20 years and he's by far the youngest player on this list and if he continues at this current career trajectory he will easily be making $100 million+ a year in the next few years. Until then he'll have to console himself with *only* $30 million a year. Sad!
6. Alexis Sanchez - $30.8 million.
One of the highest paid players in the Premier League... is most definitely not one of the best players in the Premier League. Matter of fact he's not even one of the best players on his team and that team finished 6th which tells you all you need to know about the worst value for money player contract in the Premier League.
