As wages and transfer fees continue to rise in football, Barcelona have set a new mark by becoming the first team with an average first-team pay in excess of £10 million ($12.81 million) a year, according to the latest Global Sports Salary Survey .
This season, the Spanish giants will pay the 23-man first-team squad an average of £10.45 million ($13.39 million) before bonuses with that figure rising by 33 per cent since 2017-18.
Lionel Messi's new contract helped boost that number, as did the signings of Philippe Coutinho, Arthur, Malcom and Arturo Vidal, each of whom helped lift the club's wage budget.