The left back is under contract with Paris Saint-Germain until June 30, when he should leave the capital free. Arriving at the club in 2015 after two interesting seasons in Monaco, the 31-year-old earns – according to L’Équipe – 500,000 euros per month, the 16th highest salary in Ligue 1… while he has only played only eight minutes of play this season, and heated the Parisian bench twelve times, still in Ligue 1. Layvin Kurzawa has been away from the field since December 3.
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The 2018 world champion and former FC Barcelona player was recruited by Lille from Lecce this summer. At 30, he represents the fourth highest salary of the Nordic club – 150,000 euros per me -, although he played 13 small matches for often disappointing performances.
“We don’t have money but we have heart,” a club supporter told us in February. The astonishing Brest club is perfectly put together this season, right down to salaries. Runner-up to Paris Saint-Germain eight days before the end of the 2023-2024 French championship, the Breton club is banking on the players – as revealed by L’Équipe – who are extending their contract with the club. Pierre Lees-Melou, playing master of the team coached by Éric Roy, represents the club’s highest salary (€80,000) with the Dutch goalkeeper, Marco Bizot. Romain Del Castillo and Steve Mounié are just behind, with €70,000 monthly salary. Income worthy of a bottom-of-the-table club, while Stade Brestois is aiming for a first participation in the Champions League.
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The Girondins de Bordeaux, relegated last year, currently 13th in Ligue 2 and in crisis at the end of 2023, have maintained particularly high salaries for a second division club. Danylo Ignatenko, the Girondins’ highest paid player, receives 80,000 euros. A colossal sum, for a club which will fight until the end of the season to avoid going down to the National (the relegation zone is four points from the Girondins, Editor’s note).
The former assistant coach of Red Star, but also of the young people of Olympique Lyonnais, who became director of the training center of the Rhone club in 2023, experienced an unimaginable rise this season. Called to take over as interim coach in Lyon, the 44-year-old coach allowed Les Gones to raise their heads. But his lack of experience at the professional level allows the club not to pay him at the level of former strategists who worked at Lyon, such as Laurent Blanc (230,000 euros) and Fabio Grosso (100,000 euros). Pierre Sage receives, according to L’Équipe, 80,000 euros per month. On the contrary, Patrick Vieira, in Strasbourg, receives 220,000 euros per month, while his club is in 12th place in Ligue 1.
