In times of crisis, someone else's salary is more interesting than ever. How much do officials, actors, footballers get. At least to the question: “How much?” the players managed to get an answer.
The highest paid football players of the Russian Federation in 2015 located in the ranking according to income per year, net of taxes, including salary and subscription bonus (divided by the number of years prescribed in the contract). The current turmoil of the ruble exchange rate has not passed and the players: some of them prefer to receive money in foreign currency - dollars or euros. As can be assumed, their ruble income over the past year has increased at least 2.5 times.
However, over the past year, the most expensive football clubs have not been able to lure a single player, and for what reason - let the reader guess it himself.
10. Artyom Dziuba
The rating of Russian football players with the highest salaries is opened by the striker of the St. Petersburg football club Zenit. He receives a modest amount of 3.6 million euros per year. Not bad for twenty-eight years.
9. Manuel Fernandes
Manuel once represented the Portuguese national team, but decided to move to Russia and became a midfielder of the Lokomotiv club in Moscow. This dedicated man to the depths of his soul once even played to the final whistle with a crack in the bone! He receives 3.8 million euros per year - for the sake of this, you can tolerate Russian frosts.
8. Mubarak Bussufa
Despite the southern name and the corresponding appearance, this descendant of immigrants from Morocco was born in Amsterdam, so he is not used to fog and slush. Now he stands for the national team of Morocco and receives a salary in the Moscow “Locomotive” - 3.9 million euros.
7. Axel Witsel
The central midfielder of St. Petersburg “Zenith” with an afro hairstyle has a harsh character: in 2009 Witsel was disqualified for 8 games for injuring the Polish player Marcin Vasilevsky. Now it is getting richer by 4 million euros annually.
6. Igor Denisov
When Igor was 16 years old, the coach told him that because of the too thick “fifth point” he could never play football well. However, Igor became the Honored Master of Sports of Russia, Dynamo Moscow midfielder and player of the Russian national team. Despite the explosive nature and tendency to beat television cameras, the football player continues to play and receives for this 4 million euros per year.
5. Vedran Chorluka
A native of Croatia, once in the Moscow “Lokomotiv”, immediately scored a goal against “Mordovia”, then became the main central defender, the best player of the season according to fans and finally the team captain. Vedran earns 4.4 million euros a year.
4. Xavi Garcia
This hot Spanish guy receives 4.5 million euros per year, being a defensive midfielder of St. Petersburg “Zenith”.
3. Esekiel Garay
The young Argentine in his first match for St. Petersburg “Zenith” made a critical mistake, becoming the cause of the defeat of his team with a score of 1: 0. There is a version that the mistake happened because of the footballer’s fatigue - he played in the World Cup finals just a couple of weeks ago. Apparently, this is true, since Garay continues to play and he is paid 5 million euros per year.
2. Alexander Kokorin
Alexander began his football career while still very young - from the age of nine he began to live in a boarding school at the Lokomotiv Sports School (Moscow). Kokorin scored his first goal in a “serious” match (Russian Championship) at seventeen. Now Alexander is the vice captain and striker of Dynamo Moscow with an annual salary of 5 million euros.
1. Zivanildo Vieira de Souza (Hulk)
Leader in the ranking of the richest football playersplaying for Russia by a fairly large margin. He receives 7 million euros a year, ahead of second place by 2 million euros. In 2012, it was bought by St. Petersburg Zenit for 60 million euros. Interestingly, of this amount, the football player himself, together with the agent, received 10 million euros, and most of all (40 million) went to his previous club, “Port”. With his native Brazilian team, in 2012 he received a silver Olympic medal.
