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maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 28 NOVEMBER 2018 20 FOOTBALL SPORTS FIRSTTEAM players at Manchester United are earn- ing on average half a million pounds a year more than Pre- mier League champions Man- chester City, according to the Global Sports Salaries Survey. United players are also pick- ing up almost double what Tottenham are paying their first-team squad. Meanwhile, Barcelona have become the first sports team to pay an average yearly salary of more than €10m. Real Madrid, Juventus and Manchester United are also in the top 10 spenders. The other six clubs in the top 10 all come from the NBA. Clubs in the Premier League are paying, on average, more than top-flight football clubs in any other country per game, although cricket's In- dian Premier League and American football's NFL top the spending on a per-game basis. Premier League big spenders Manchester City may have won the Premier League last season, but they come in be- hind Manchester United this term on wages with the Old Trafford club paying an aver- age of €6,534,654 per year to first-team players. City's yearly bill comes in at €5,993,000, followed by Chelsea (€5,020,004), Liver- pool (€4,862,963), Arsenal (€4,853,130) and Tottenham (€3,515,778). Everton and West Ham fol- low closely behind Spurs, while Cardiff, Huddersfield and Burnley make up the bot- tom three - the Bluebirds are the only Premier League club to come in under €1m for the year. That said, despite Burnley's average annual first-team wage of €1,603,197 placing them third-bottom of the Pre- mier League pile, the Clarets are still paying more than the likes of Ligue 1's Monaco and Bundesliga side RB Leipzig. "The two Manchester clubs, United and City, remain clear of the rest in basic pay terms according to our calcula- tions," say Sporting Intelli- gence, who conduct the sur- vey. "We thought last year that whichever of the pair achieved the most on the pitch would end up with the larger of the two overall wage bills (all staff) for 2017-18. "In fact City won the league and had wages of €260m and United faltered but paid out €296m." City finished as champions ahead of United, but while Pep Guardiola's side top the league again this campaign Jose Mourinho's outfit have slipped to seventh. Sporting Intelligence says this was largely down to Unit- ed's return to the Champions League, but do point out some of Manchester City's wage bill appears under the City Foot- ball Group. Manchester United players earning €500,000 more than City rivals Manchester United top Premier League pay scale Barcelona pay an average yearly salary of more than €10m

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