The big clubs have a continuous challenge of making the salary budget go up, while at the same time there is a balance between the players’ salaries and their role/performance in the club. When Liverpool pay an astronomical £130 million for Alexander Isak, then the big question is: Where do you place the player without a single Liverpool goal to boast in the club’s wage hierarchy?
According to The Guardian, Liverpool have gone to great lengths in negotiations with the Swede, £300,000 will tick into Isak’s account weekly from the first week of work at Liverpool.
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Liverpool spent almost all of last season agreeing on the salary terms for Virgil van Dijk and Mo Salah, with the result that the duo are firmly at the top of the salary hierarchy (with Salah as the King). According to the English newspaper, Liverpool make Isak the club’s third highest paid player.
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Needless to say, there are sky-high expectations for the Premier League’s second-highest scoring player last season.
