Bastian Schweinsteiger is now reportedly the highest paid player in the Premier League.
The German midfielder officially joined Manchester United from Bayern Munich on Monday, signing a three-year deal at Old Trafford, after the clubs agreed a fee of around £14.4 million (€20.3 million).
Schweinsteiger was understandably emotional leaving the club he’d played for since he was a child, and with whom he won every trophy possible.
However, he also seemed very happy to have joined United, and if this report is accurate we can see why.
According to Jeremy Cross, the chief sports writer for The Daily Star, Schweinsteiger will be paid £275,000 a week (€387,751), £13.3 million a year (€18.76 million), and will cost the club £40 million (€56.41 million) should be see out his three-year contact.
We’ll give you a moment to process all that.
If there figures are correct, Schweinsteiger will become the highest paid player in the Premier League, supplanting Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure, and raising questions over United’s transfer policy and wage structure.
The club are a commercial juggernaut, and can clearly comfortably afford to pay such a salary, but does it make sense to pay a 31-year-old midfielder so much?
Of course not, but rationality went out the window a long time for Premier League clubs.
This is a club that reportedly pay Marcos Rojo £150,000 a week.
While Raheem Sterling is about to become the most expensive English player ever, overtaking Andy Carroll.
H/T Bleacher Report.
