Galaxy & Chivas USA Player Salaries Revealed
As it has for the past several years, the MLS Players Union has revealed its members' annual salaries, in part to show the pittance many earn.
Sports Illustrated has an overview here with links to the complete list for the last two years.
Below are the guaranteed salaries for Galaxy and Chivas USA players with their 2007 pay packet in parentheses where applicable.
So who's overpaid? Underpaid?
The numbers:
Chivas USA
Jonathan Bornstein $77,500 ($57,500)
Justin Braun $12,900
Bobby Burling $17,700 ($12,900)
Kraig Chiles $12,900
Jim Curtin $104,004 ($120,750)
Eric Ebert $12,900
Alecko Eskandarian $131,041 ($175,500)
Jorge Flores $17,700.00
Maykel Galindo $79,750
Brad Guzan $103,974.38
Anthony Hamilton $17,700.00
Atiba Harris $60,000.00
Sacha Kljestan $128,000 ($103,000)
Jesse Marsch $159,375 ($109,375)
Francisco Mendoza $105,000 ($93,750)
Paulo Nagamura $93,712.50 ($89,250)
Daniel Paladini $12,900
Lance Parker $12,900
Chris Pozniak $101,000
Ante Razov $258,750 ($248,750)
Keith Savage $12,900
Shavar Thomas $98,750
Lawson Vaughn $33,000 ($30,000)
Raphael Wicky $210,000
Alex Zotinca $72,125.00
Galaxy
Charles Alamo $12,900
Ely Allen Ely $44,750
David Beckham $6.5 million ($6.5 million)
Edson Buddle $157,000
Steve Cronin $75,000 ($42,228.75)
Landon Donovan $900,000 ($900,000)
Sean Franklin $48,500
Michael Gavin $33,000
Alan Gordon $72,504 ($30,870)
Ante Jazic $120,250.00 ($114,250)
Chris Klein $190,000 ($187,250)
Brandon McDonald $12,900
Michael Randolph $33,000.00
Troy Roberts $33,000 ($30,000)
Carlos Ruiz $460,000 ($435,000)
Izzy Sesay $57,083.33
Pete Vagenas $138,437.50 ($131,875)
Greg Vanney $91,800.00
Abel Xavier $156,000
Columnist Nick Green has written 100 Percent Soccer
since 2005. A
native of England, he began writing about soccer in
the mid-1980s and in 2000 permanently exchanged a seat
in the stands for one in
the press box. He lives six miles from Carson's Home
Depot Center, home of the Los Angeles Galaxy, Chivas
USA and the training headquarters for U.S. Soccer.
Married to a long-suffering soccer widow, he has a cat
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Comments
LA overpaid underperforming bench players who cost too much and/or provide too little: Xavier, Buddle, Vagenas, Jazic, Roberts (he's not good at all).
That would free up quite some money for reinvestments.
Wonder how much the not-so-Brazlian Pires makes?
Posted by: Ben | April 5, 2008 1:13 AM