Some teenagers scrub pots or stack shelves for £200 a week, while others earn tens of thousands of pounds to kick a ball around.
From an Arsenal star to Barcelona and Spain sensation Lamine Yamal, these are the 10 highest-paid teenage footballers in the world.
One earns nearly £440,000 a week after bonuses are thrown into the equation!
10) Myles Lewis-Skelly (Arsenal) – £45,000 p/w
The Arsenal left-back penned a lucrative new deal in June to become one of the highest-paid teenage footballers in the world. He’s some talent and fully deserves the significant wage hike after a spectacular breakout campaign.
9) Mark Guiu (Chelty) – £50,000 p/w
The most baffling inclusion in this teenage rich list. Chelsea were obviously willing to offer Guiu big money due to his low transfer fee (€6million) and the fact he’s tied down until 2029.
8) PAU Cubarsi (Barcelona) – £ 64,917 p/W
One of two Barcelona players here, Cubarsi committed his future to his boyhood club on a four-year deal worth €4million per year.
7) Lucas Bergvall (Tottenham Hotspur) – £ 65,000 p/w
Spurs beat Barcelona to the signing of Bergvall and all of a sudden, it makes perfect sense.
6) Endrick (Real Madrid) – £67,513 p/w
Brazilian wonderkid Endrick is Real Madrid’s highest-earning teenager, taking the mantle from Arda Guler, who left his teenage years behind in February. We’re looking forward to discovering how much Franco Mastantuono is earning.
5) Archie Gray (Tottenham Hotspur) – £75,000 p/w
Mathys Tel earns £80k a week at Spurs, but he turned 20 in April, so the Londoners’ only have two representatives. Pathetic.
Gray cost around £40m last summer, leaving boyhood club Leeds United.
4) Ethan Nwaneri (Arsenal) – £ 80,000
The Arsenal starlet joins fellow Hale End graduate Lewis-Skelly in this top 10 after signing a lucrative long-term contract, which Capology says includes an extra £20,000 a week in bonuses, taking his weekly salary up to £100,000. Oof.
3) Leny Yoro (Manchester United) – £115,000 p/w
Signed from Lille last summer, French defender Yoro is the second-most expensive teenager in Premier League history and one of 15 United players on a six-figure weekly wage. They’re grateful to be cutting that figure down from 17 with Victor Lindelof and Christian Eriksen leaving for nothing.
Top earner Casemiro, Marcus Rashford and Jadon Sancho are all available, while United also wouldn’t stand in the way of Harry Maguire, Mason Mount, Joshua Zirkzee, Andre Onana or Luke Shaw leaving if suitable offers arrive.
2) Warren Zaire-Emery (PSG) – £185,012 p/w
The French international penned a lucrative five-year contract in April 2024 to become the highest-paid teenager in the world. Now second, he takes home nearly £200k per week at PSG.
1) Lamine Yamal (Barcelona) – £ 270.540 p/w
Comfortably the youngest on this list is also comfortably the highest-paid teenager in the world – and of all time.
YAMAL earns a base salary of £270,540 per week and a further £169,108 in bonuses, meaning he takes home £439,648 every bloody week, at the age of 17.
He is under contract for seven years, meaning he’ll still be very young when it expires. It’s honestly frightening. Every single statistic about the Barcelona wonderkid makes me sick. And he could win the Ballon d’Or.
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