10 Highest Paid Players in Europe’s Top 5 Leagues As Kylian Mbappe Earns €6M Monthly

• Kylian Mbappe is the highest-paid player in Europe's top 5 leagues
• The French star earns three times more than Harry Kane in second
• Five Premier League stars featured in the top 10 monthly earners

Kylian Mbappe is the highest-paid player in the top five European Leagues, with his contract at Paris Saint-Germain set to expire this summer, and he is expected to leave the club.

The PSG attacker earns about three times more than Harry Kane, who is in second place and saw a bumper increase in his salary when he left Tottenham Hotspur to join Bayern Munich.

Sports Brief looks at the top 10 highest-paid in the big five leagues, according to L'Equipe.

Highest-paid players in Europe's Big 5

1. Kylian Mbappe

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Mbappe earns a gross salary of €6 million per month at PSG. His earnings grew greatly with the club's previous efforts to keep and stop him from joining Real Madrid. He is set to move to Spain as a free agent when his contract expires in the summer.

2. Harry Kane

Kane earns a gross salary of €2.1mil per month at Bayern Munich. He joined the club from Tottenham Hotspur in the summer. Fans believe the move was to win trophies, but the UEFA Champions League is his only realistic chance now. He wouldn't mind sacrificing some of the money for silverware.

2. Kevin De Bruyne

The Belgian playmaker earns a gross monthly income of €2.02mil and is Manchester City and Premier League’s highest-paid star. He has a contract till the summer of 2025 at the club, and nothing has been discussed between club and player.

4. Erling Haaland

Per Transfermarkt, though De Bruyne has more base salary, Haaland earns more at Man City because of achievable bonuses in his contract. His gross monthly wages is €1.9mil, the second highest in the English top-flight.

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5. David Alaba

Alaba is the highest-paid defender in Europe with a gross monthly salary of €1.88mil. The Austrian star of Nigerian descent joined Real Madrid from Bayern in 2021. He is out with an ACL injury he suffered against Villarreal in December.

6. Robert Lewandowski - €1.87mil

7. Casemiro - €1.77mil

8. Mohamed Salah - €1.77mil

9. Raphael Varane - €1.72mil

10. Jude Bellingham - 1.7mil

Kane quits £10k per night hotel

Sports Brief previously reported on Kane leaving a £10k per night hotel to move to a family home months after completing his move to the German champions.

The England captain racked up over £1mil in bills after staying at the Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski hotel for months before buying a family mansion for £29mil.