This summer, AC Milan have had to lower their wages for the upcoming Serie A season, given they have no European commitments.
There is no longer one above all when it comes to the Milan wage breakdown, Rafael Leao is not atop of the list, and now the mantle is shared by Adrien Rabiot and Christopher Nkunku, per reports this morning.
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However, the Rossoneri’s wage bill is still significant, as Calcio e Finanza report this morning, with around €104.5 million spent on wages this season, a 0.6% decrease compared to last season’s figure of €105.1m.
Milan lacking
These figures are not just available for the Diavolo, though, and Calcio Finanza have ordered the teams from the heaviest wage spending to the least, as can be seen below, thanks to MilanPosts on X.
In this table, Inter are the leaders in the table once again, with a staggering yearly wage spend of €141.5m, which is somehow a larger decrease than Milan’s this season. Then, they are followed by Juventus (€123m) and Napoli (€110m). Expectedly, this is where the Rossoneri would sit in. However, you would be wrong.
Roma, in fact, sit fourth, with a wage bill of €107.5m, whilst the Diavolo’s spending puts them fifth. In fact, the gap between themselves and Inter €37m is bigger than the gap to Lazio in sixth, who have a wage bill of €69.9m (-€34.6m).
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10-12M for CB and ST; 2-3M for wingback… that’s still 3rd highest
LMAO it’s like y’all don’t read your own articles.
Milan trimmed the squad this year. They did so pretty drastically. Many articles here about it.
Indeed if the Benny deal goes through we will be even closer to Lazio. And we get “Milan Lacking” for a headline?
Pro tip – in general, fewer players to pay means a smaller total wage bill.
Pro tip – if you aren’t in Europe your wage bill should decrease.
And I thought the Americans had corned the market on “bad at maths”
I am coming to believe this is not a fan site but some sort of exercise is mass schadenfreude.
Valid points. Milan without UCL while the TOP4 is playing more matches and needs a bigger squad.
Another useless financials article. What’s the cost per player?
Ours is 4.5M, Roma/Napoli are below us at 4M. Juve is at 4.7M. Inter is at 5.7M.
Why? Because Marota is the MVP of Inter and half of the squad was signed on free transfer deals.
What does all this mean on the field? Absolutely nothing.
And in fact if Milan were to compete for scudetto this season (I doubt it but still…), doing that with a much smaller budget would mean that Milan had done something right.
But let’s not kid ourselves and think the management did well this summer. Or any other summer either. We still need to get rid of Furlani, Moncada and most of all, Scaroni & Cardinale.