(Paris) Kylian Mbappé is easily the highest salary in Ligue 1, and one of the highest paid sportsmen in the world, at 6 million gross euros ($ 8.9 million) monthly, according to the ranking of the daily L’Équipe .

The 2018 world champion is joined on the podium by his Paris Saint-Germain teammates Neymar (€3.675m; $5.4m) and Lionel Messi (€3.375m; $5m).

Moreover, the French champion club monopolizes the first ten places in the ranking established each spring by the journalists of L’Équipe.

PSG’s average monthly gross salary exceeds one million euros (1.017 million euros; $1.5 million), according to their estimates.

The only two non-PSG players on the first 16 salaries in the French Championship are Monegasque Wissam Ben Yedder (650,000 euros; $960,000) and Marseillais Jordan Veretout (550,000 euros; $813,000).

OM places seven other players among the first thirty pays of L1, from Alexis Sanchez to Mattéo Guendouzi.