Juventus, once again, has the second-highest wage bill in Serie A

One of many greatest undertakings of the post-pandemic financial local weather at Juventus has concerned getting an extremely bloated wage invoice extra beneath management. Not solely was Juve’s payroll simply the best in Serie A, but it surely was competing with a number of the highest in all the world, and definitely wasn’t as sustainable because it was earlier than the pandemic for very apparent financial causes.

Final season, Juventus didn’t have the best payroll in Serie A — and it’s the identical this time round.

In accordance with Calcio e Finanza earlier this week, Juventus’ payroll for the 2025-26 season will likely be ranked in the identical place in Serie A because it was final 12 months — proper behind Inter Milan in second place. Juventus’ gross payroll is estimated to be just below €123 million this season, with a web whole of €70.4 million. Whereas each figures are considerably down from the place Juventus’ payroll was at in the course of the pre-pandemic days and the season or two after the 2020 lockdown, the membership’s wage invoice is definitely noticeably increased this 12 months in comparison with final, in keeping with Calcio e Finanza, with a 12.5% improve for the brand new marketing campaign.

Inter’s league-high payroll is reportedly €141.5 million gross this season, down ever so barely from the 2024-25 marketing campaign.

As we’re all properly conscious, Dusan Vlahovic and his Serie A-high €12 million web wage nonetheless weighs closely on the Juventus wage invoice, with summer season signing Jonathan David (€6 million) and Gleison Bremer (€5 million) the one gamers on the roster to be making €5 million or extra this season.

It’s additionally famous that Juve have been additionally the second-highest spending crew in Serie A in the course of the summer season mercato, though a lot of that needed to do with gamers — goalkeeper Michele Di Gregorio, defender Pierre Kalulu, winger Nico González, and so on. — introduced in final summer season or winter on choices and obligations to purchase. AC Milan have been the best spending Serie A membership this summer season, meting out over €160 million to attempt to refresh their roster with a sure Max Allegri again on the sidelines on the San Siro.

With it being famous that Juve’s wage invoice is increased this season than it was in the course of the 2024-25 marketing campaign, it’s additionally price mentioning that one of many membership’s lowest earners, Kenan Yildiz, is predicted to be in for a giant bump in what he earns on a 12 months foundation. As has been reported all through the summer season, Juventus and Yildiz’s camp are engaged on a contract extension via 2030 with the younger No. 10 anticipated to see his web wage hit within the neighborhood of €4.5 million, placing him degree salary-wise with Teun Koopmeiners and simply behind Bremer and David by way of these Juve gamers signed previous the summer season of 2026. (Vlahovic is at present within the closing 12 months of the deal he signed when he arrived from Fiorentina in January 2022.)

As a part of the Calcio e Finanza reporting, Juventus’ new signings apart from David make the next:

One other participant who was signed on a everlasting foundation, Francisco Conceição, is simply exterior the highest 5 by way of Juventus’ highest earners at €3.8 million web.