Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Neymar are among the heftiest earners named on a new rich list of the ten highest-paid footballers in the world – although there are a few names coining it in who have barely even featured in the top leagues this season.
Seven-time Ballon d'Or winner Messi earns a colossal wage of £960,000, and a former Chelsea regular who has not been seen playing outside of China since 2017 is closer to that enormous pay packet than Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Kylian Mbappe.
Ex-Brazil playmaker Oscar made more than 200 appearances for the Blues before joining Chinese Super League side Shanghai SIPG – now known as Shanghai Port – in the January 2017 transfer window.