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Wolves are covering €400,000 a month in wages for Angel Gomes during his loan deal at Molineux.
L’Equipe report on the arrangement today as they reveal the annual wages in Ligue 1 for each club. As part of that, Wolves’ payments to Marseille for Gomes have come to light.
The newspaper explains that Marseille currently have the second highest wage bill in Ligue 1 behind Paris Saint-Germain. AS Monaco’s lack of taxes slightly skews that figure.
Big spending Marseille
Either way, Marseille are big spenders in that department, with the current spend the biggest in their history.
That is because some players, signed on free transfers, were offered huge sums to move to Marseille in the first place.
The average gross monthly salary in the squad is now around the €300,000 mark, with Pierre Emile Hojbjerg topping the charts at €500,000.
Gomes, a free transfer from Lille, is also among the top earners. He’s on €400,000 a month, almost triple what he was on previously. He was rewarded for being a free agent.
Wolves deal raises eyebrows
He’s now on loan at Wolves and they are covering that entire figure during the deal, including bonuses.
So Wolves will pay around €2.4m in wages just to loan the 25-year-old until the end of the season. They also already paid €1m for the loan deal itself.
The deal also includes an option to buy, although that is unlikely to be exercised if they are relegated from the Premier League as expected.
That’s a lot of money, particularly for a team who spent the January transfer window largely cutting down the squad and bringing costs in line ahead of relegation.
What is surprising is that Wolves agreed to pay his wages, and bonuses, in full. That’s not common with loan deals, where such costs are usually split between the two clubs.
Given Gomes has managed just seven appearances and 287 minutes since arriving, it’s very much a deal that’s benefitted Marseille more.
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