{"id":483166,"date":"2024-05-16T20:10:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T00:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483166"},"modified":"2024-05-16T20:10:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T00:10:12","slug":"messi-tops-mls-highest-paid-footballers-at-20-4-million-dollars","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/messi-tops-mls-highest-paid-footballers-at-20-4-million-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi tops MLS highest-paid footballers at 20.4 million dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inter Miami superstar Leo Messi is MLS\u2019 highest-paid footballer, with a total guaranteed compensation of almost 20.5 million dollars.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MLS teams with higher payrolls than Leo Messi&#39;s $20.4M annual salary: 3<\/p>\n<p>MLS teams with lower payrolls than Leo Messi&#39;s $20.4M annual salary: 25<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcb8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Fh9pRgnGVm\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Fh9pRgnGVm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; B\/R Football (@brfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brfootball\/status\/1791223570175029450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The amount accounts for only the playing portion of the Argentinian compensation, with Messi also set to benefit from other revenues, such as his endorsement deal with Adidas and a revenue-sharing agreement with Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Lionel will earn almost 150 million dollars over the 2 1\/2-year deal he inked with Inter Miami and the league in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto FC attacker Lorenzo Insigne ranked 2<sup>nd<\/sup> with over 15 million dollars guaranteed, as 3<sup>rd<\/sup> is Messi\u2019s teammate Sergio Busquets at almost 9 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Fire attacker Xherdan Shaqiri, the MLS\u2019 top earner at this time in the past campaign, is in 4<sup>th<\/sup> position at 8.15 million dollars, followed by Austin FC attacker \u00a0Sebasti\u00e1n Driussi at almost 7 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Inter Miami are at the top in the total guaranteed compensation per club at almost 42 million dollars \u2013 10 million dollars than 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Toronto FC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inter Miami superstar Leo Messi is MLS\u2019 highest-paid footballer, with a total guaranteed compensation of almost 20.5 million dollars. MLS teams with higher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":483167,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17501,17909,17528],"news_category":[17676,14235],"gn_keywords":[18156,17910,714],"acf":{"announce":"Lionel is the highest-paid player in the Major League Soccer.","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\/483166"}],"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=483166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483168,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483166\/revisions\/483168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483166"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483166"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}