{"id":466276,"date":"2023-10-18T15:57:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T19:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=466276"},"modified":"2023-10-18T15:57:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T19:57:59","slug":"messi-tops-mls-salary-list-with-20-million-dollars","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/messi-tops-mls-salary-list-with-20-million-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi tops MLS salary list with 20 million dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inter Miami superstar Leo Messi is Major League Soccer\u2019s highest-paid footballer, with a league-record annual guaranteed salary of 20 million dollars, from the league shared today.<\/p>\n<p>That features just Lionel\u2019s salary. A few months ago, Inter co-owner Jorge Mas revealed the Argentina international total compensation, which includes a cut from the league&#8217;s Apple TV deal, is between 50 to 60 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Leo\u2019s mid-campaign arrival, along with that of ex-Barcelona teammates \u00a0Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba, put the club from Florida to the top of Major League Soccer side salary rankings, with total guaranteed compensations of almost 40 million dollars. That is double the sum that Inter Miami spent in the past campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentinian salary is the highest in the league\u2019s history, topping \u00a0Toronto FC&#8217;s Lorenzo Insigne, who is in 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place with almost 15.5 million dollars. The Chicago Fire&#8217;s Xherdan Shaqiri is 3<sup>rd<\/sup> in that list with a little over 8 million dollars.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8211; What\u2019s in Lionel Messi\u2019s MLS record $20-plus million salary, and what notably isn\u2019t<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; What Union newcomer Tai Baribo is making<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s Mart\u00ednez got a big raise with his recent contract extension<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Teemu Pukki and other big-money summer arrivals<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WTagJA8Z03\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/WTagJA8Z03<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WMpg5s5wnA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/WMpg5s5wnA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jonathan Tannenwald (@thegoalkeeper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thegoalkeeper\/status\/1714714332049649975?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inter Miami superstar Leo Messi is Major League Soccer\u2019s highest-paid footballer, with a league-record annual guaranteed salary of 20 million dollars, from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":466277,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17501,16898,17528],"news_category":[17676,14235],"gn_keywords":[18156,17905,714],"acf":{"announce":"The Argentinian superstar with a record salary in the league.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466278,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466276\/revisions\/466278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466276"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=466276"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=466276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}