La Gazzetta dello Sport puts the Serie A salaries in a row every year and the pink sports newspaper unpacked on Saturday with the wages for this season. With an annual salary of 31 million euros, Cristiano Ronaldo remains more than the big earner in the Italian league and his teammate at Juventus Matthijs de Ligt is the number two on the list. La Vecchia Signora also makes by far the highest wage costs of any club in Serie A. with a salary house of 236.

Juventus managed to save 58 million in salaries with the departure of players such as Gonzalo Higuaín, Miralem Pjanic and Douglas Costa, but still pay the most in salaries. Number two Internazionale pays out almost 90 million less with a total of 149 million in salaries. Romelu Lukaku and Christian Eriksen are the big earners in the Giuseppe Meazza with an annual salary of 7.5 million.

AS Roma, Napoli and AC Milan complete the top five with 112 million, 105 million and 90 million respectively. Edin Dzeko is well over the top earner in Rome with an annual salary of 7.5 million, while Kalidou Koulibaly is in the lead with 6 million a year in Naples. At Milan, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Gianluigi Donnarumma are the big earners: the Swede receives seven million a year, while his much younger teammate receives six million.

Stunt team Atalanta is somewhere in the middle bracket in terms of salary management. The current Serie A leader, and Ajax’s groupmate in the Champions League, pays out just 42.6 million annually in wages. Alejandro ‘Papu’ Gómez is the top earner with 2 million a year and he is followed by Josip Ilicic (1.8 million), Luis Muriel (1.8 million) and Duván Zapata (1.8 million). Total spending on salaries in Series A fell from 1.36 billion to 1.29 billion due to the corona crisis.

Salaries Juventus:
Cristiano Ronaldo – 31 million
Matthijs de Ligt – 8 million
Paulo Dybala – 7.3 million
Adrien Rabiot – 7 million
Aaron Ramsey – 7 million
Leonardo Bonucci – 6.5 million
Wojciech Szczesny – 6.5 million
Alex Sandro – 6 million

Salaries Internazionale:
Romelu Lukaku – 7.5 million
Christian Eriksen – 7.5 million
Alexis Sánchez – 7 million
Arturo Vidal – 6.5 million
Achraf Hakimi – 5 million
Ivan Perisic – 5 million
Radja Nainggolan – 4.5 million
Stefan de Vrij – 3.8 million

Salaries AC Milan:
Zlatan Ibrahimovic – 7 million
Gianluigi Donnarumma – 6 million
Ante Rebic – 3.5 million
Alessio Romagnoli – 3.5 million
Hakan Calhanoglu – 2.5 million
Franck Kessié – 2.2 million