In the blink of an eye, they’re a few euros richer. Or by the time you’ve finished reading this article, it’s measured in tens or even hundreds of euros more. This makes the numbers accompanying the world’s highest-paid football players more relatable. Because understanding that they claim over a hundred million euros each year is one thing, but grasping it for the average person who won’t earn that in a lifetime is another.
Seconds Worth Over 3 Euros for Mbappé or Benzema
So, it’s more telling to highlight that every second, the two highest-paid French footballers in the world earn the equivalent of €3.1 per second for Karim Benzema and one cent more for Kylian Mbappé. The ratio is doubled for Al-Nassr’s player, Cristiano Ronaldo, the football planet’s top earner.
Eleven footballers earning over a euro per second
Considering there are 31,536,000 seconds in a year, there are eleven (fortunate) footballers earning at least €1 every second, based on Forbes’ annual figures scaled down to a shorter timeframe.
Footballers Earning the Most per Second
- Robert Lewandowwki = €1/second
- Harry Kane = €1.1/second
- Kevin De Bruyne = €1.2/second
- Sadio Mané = €1.5/second
- Mohamed Salah = €1.5/second
- Erling Haaland = €1.7/second
- Karim Benzema = €3.1/second
- Kylian Mbappé = €3.2/second
- Neymar = €3.3/second
- Lionel Messi = €4/second
- Cristiano Ronaldo = €7.7/second
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