Juventus will be gaining yet another asset in the summer – presumably after picking up their seventh successive Scudetto in the Italian Serie A – after Aaron Ramsey signed a pre-contract agreement with the Bianconeri that will see him leave Arsenal for absolutely nothing after 11 years of service.
The Wales captain will earn a wig-spinning £300k per week in Turin, making him Juventus’ second-highest paid player behind Cristiano Ronaldo, who is on a staggering £26.44million (€30 million) a year contract that humbles every other player in the side.
Ramsey’s contract is equalled by another British player. Raheem Sterling is the top Brit playing in the Premier League, increasing his £150,000 a week he received after moving from Liverpool to Manchester City in 2015 to £300,000 after signing a three-year contract extension to keep him at the Etihad until 2023, back in November.
Propping up the top five highest earning British players is that absolute curveball, Danny Drinkwater at Chelsea.
The Blues outcast takes home around £6.24m per year (Sportrac), or around £120,000 per week, slightly more than Manchester City defending duo John Stones and Kyle Walker (£100k each, £5.2million a year), and has cost Chelsea close to £50 million since his arrival – including initial transfer fee – since transferring to West London from Leicester in summer 2017.
England captain Harry Kane is on 200k a week at Spurs – far and away Tottenham’s highest paid player – but is only the seventh highest paid player in the Premier League. Kane is on a six-year contract worth £62.4million
Ultimately however, Ramsey’s salary is dwarfed by his compatriot over in La Liga. Since signing a contract extension at Real Madrid in 2016, Gareth Bale is currently on a salary of £600,000 a week (£350,000 after tax) with Los Blancos, equalling £150m over a six year period; a salary that even meant that he could buy the entire population of Malta a sausage roll from Greggs after only 10 days.