British tabloid the Daily Mail has reported on Chilean international striker Alexis Sanchez’s earnings in order to ‘shame’ Manchester United.
This according to Milano based Corriere della Sera’s online edition, who begin by analyzing his salary, which makes him the highest paid player in the Premier League.
The Chilean’s base salary is £300,000 per week, plus the extra £100,000 for image rights, £21,730 for his agent, and various bonuses and insurances that total a whopping £560,000 a week.
By removing the bonuses, it still comes out to £505,000 a week. Multiplying this number by the years in his contract, he would cost Manchester United a sum of £41 million.
Given the obscene amount of money he is earning, the expectation was for him to perform well enough to justify it. Instead, he suffered injuries, poor physical fitness, and a gradual drop in confidence, which led to him totaling a disappointing 45 appearances (a total of 2,777 minutes) scoring just 5 goals.
In practice, that is 1 goal ever 555 minutes, which means that each appearance that Sanchez has made has cost United over £900,000.
Now the forward is a step away from joining Inter, but United will still have to cover half of his salary in the hopes that he goes to the Serie A and revitalizes himself, although for now, the numbers seem to suggest the opposite.
