[Sky Sports] Lionel Messi will be the highest paid athlete in Miami. Messi will earn £43m per season, earning more than NBA player Jimmy Butler (£30m), NFL player Tyreek Hill (£24m) and MLB player Jorge Soler (£12m)
⚽️ 𝐋𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢 – £43m
🏀 Jimmy Butler – £30m
🏈 Tyreek Hill – £24m
⚾️ Jorge Soler – £12mLionel Messi is now reportedly the highest-paid athlete per season in Miami. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/csbcgovV7G
— Football Daily (@footballdaily) June 9, 2023
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The shocking part about this is the baseball player! JFC. A decent left handed reliever costs $10M and the highest paid Marlin is only making $12M? What a cheapskate, doesn’t want to field a competitive team owner those poor fans have to deal with.
Wow, I guess that’s what you get when you combine American sport business management with football’s global reach. I’m bet they’re crossing their fingers that he delivers something near that value for them though!
He’s probably worth 3 Jorge Solers.
But with everything else that comes with this deal what is he really going to make per year? It isn’t $500+ million he would have gotten from the saudis. Which I am happy he didn’t take.
jorge soler?!
ex cub jorge soler???
one time projected to be better than yoenis cespedas??
Duh..
While i never heard all other names, Messi is the best player of a game that has worldwide popularity neither of other american major sports dare to dream about. I am surprised someone’s Butler is payed almost as much as him though
Lol. Why include the poor Marlins?
I did hear that someone offered Messi a shitload of money to play soccer in a fascist theocracy, but I didn’t realize it was Florida.
That’s a bargain for how many eyes will be on him and the MLS.
Even if he doesn’t score a goal I think it will be money well spent
This entire time I’ve been reading “Inter Miami” as “Inter Milan” and wondering why everyone was making such a big deal out of it.
The Marlins are so pathetic. Their DH is their highest paid player, and he’s only on 12. I don’t know for sure, but I’m pretty much half the yankees, mets, braves, red sox, and probably a few more, make more than that.
I loved how they had to compare Messi to athletes in other sports cuz soccer players are too poor to be compared to 😂
Messi is single handedly going to make more than the total salary of the #2 and #3 team combined.
This probably tells you more about the Marlins than anything.
They’re paying him in pounds?
And aaaalmost as much as rapist Deshaun Watson. Not bad, Messi.
Well the MLS salary cap rules seem strange af. Looks like the salary cap is roughly 5 million per team with a maximum salary per player of ~$650,00, but there can be up to 3 designated players per team that can be paid over the maximum salary without having any impact on the salary cap. So basically you can pay 3 superstars whatever the hell you want and then only have restrictions for the rest of the roster.
Someone please correct me if I got any of that wrong that was all off a quick google search as I have no previous familiarity with MLS rules and was just curious.
love that the Marlins top paid player is 12m lmao
They compared him to a lowly paid NFL player to make Messi number look more impressive. Why not compare him against your run of the mill quarterback? Is he no leader? Carrier of teams?
Even a Honda looks good if you compare it to a Kia.
They can pay him whatever the shirt sales will cover any cost
NHL player Aleksander Barkov (10m usd)
This morning I looked to see whether Miami played in Chicago (which is the closest MLS franchise to where I live). A week from Saturday, Chicago plays Columbus, the face value of a ticket in Section 105, Row 7 and purchased from the Chicago Fire is $43.75. The Fire play Miami on Wednesday, October 4th. The face vale of a ticket in Section 105, Row 18 and purchased from the Chicago Fire (not a reseller) is **$450.00**.
This is incorrect. These figures are in GBP and should be in USD.
Butler’s salary in USD is 37.65mil which is 29.4 GBP.
But point taken. Messi is getting paid.
Zava!!
Oakland A’s total payroll….$38 million.
How is an MLS team affording this salary?
Dey tuk rrr jerbs!!!
Sad to see such a great player end his career in a washed-up league that they call football “soccer”, he still can do amazing things in Europe or even Saudi, but MLS? Idk
Comparing Messi to those guys is a massive insult to Messi. Damn near slander.
MLS gonna go broke paying that bill. Didn’t they learn ANYTHING from the NASL? I guess not.
Butler at 30 million?
What does Tkachuk make?
And yet it’s not enough