Messi tops the list of the highest paid players in the world

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The Barcelona captain tops the list of the world's most paid players.

According to the Spanish newspaper "Mundo Deportivo", the 33-year-old Messi gets a salary of 138 million euros per season and a weekly salary of 1.2 million pounds with the Catalan club, which ranks second in the Spanish Premier League standings with 59 points.

In turn, the French newspaper L'Equipe shed light on the list of the five most-paid players in the world, headed by Messi, while Cristiano Ronaldo, who gets 900,000 pounds a week, ranked second with Juventus.

The newspaper pointed out that the third place went to the Brazilian star Neymar da Silva, the French striker of Paris Saint-Germain, who earns a weekly salary estimated at 606 thousand pounds, while the fourth and fifth place came to the French Antoine Griezmann and the Uruguayan star Luis Suarez, a Barcelona player with a weekly salary of 575 thousand £ each.

Messi is the top scorer in the Spanish League with 21 goals, three ahead of Suarez, his closest rival.