Team and Player Salaries

Discussion in 'Portland Timbers' started by The_Lillard_King, Apr 11, 2014.

  1. The_Lillard_King

    The_Lillard_King Westside

    The MLS Players Union has released the latest salary information for every player in the league, and perhaps more than ever it shows the disparity between the league's highest- and lowest-paid players and how little money can mean to team success within the league. Seattle's Clint Dempsey is the league's highest paid player with guaranteed compensation of $6,695,189 in 2014, but he's trailed closely by Toronto's two big offseason signings, Michael Bradley ($6.5 million) and Jermain Defoe ($6.18 million).

    With those two additions, Toronto now has the highest payroll in the league at $16.6 million, dwarfing that of current MLS Cup holder Sporting Kansas City ($3.7 million), which has the seventh-lowest payroll in the league — just behind Real Salt Lake, the club it beat on penalties in the 2013 MLS Cup final.

    Only 12 players will make at least $1 million this season in a league in which the minimum salary is just $36,500. To show the disparity between those outliers to the league's salary cap and the majority of clubs that live within their modest means, ESPN put together a table that shows that the seven highest paid players make as much or more than entire teams.



    http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/socce...olders--entire-roster-combined-040555259.html


    About 10 teams (including the Timbers at 3.9) have a team salary of 4 million or below

    If it helps, all of the league's players combined aren't making as much as Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo put together.
     

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