In the last few years, in Spain the Atletico Madrid are on the escalation after the Real Madrid and Barcelona in position of financial strength. Atletico Madrid managed to produce the world star players of the time. The greatest player of Atletico Madrid is Griezmann, Jan Oblak, Diego Godin, Gabi and Koke Juanfran and other more players. Atletico Madrid pay the highest salary to Koke is about £192.308 per week. On the second ranking in terms of salary there came a French player, Antione Griezmann who gain the wages £112.179 per week.
In the last season it was recommended to the Atletico that it will not remain the selling club now because they have used sufficient money for becoming a competitive team in Europe and Spain. The present wage bill of Atletico is about £180 million that represents that they spend a lot of money and are not scared of spending money. We had now a glimpse at the Atletico Madrid 2017-18 squad and the details of their contracts.
In the summer 2017, Atletico Madrid bring the £59.40 million pay from Chelsea in Diego Costa and then they made an increment for Vitolo of £32.40 million in the quality squad.
Antione Griezmann is now the greatest paid player at the club because he had contracted with the club to stay for the next 4 years till 2022 along with the wages of £200,000 per week.
The Wage bill of Atletico Madrid
The average wages are on the increase from the last 5 years of Spanish La Liga’s and the player wages are also increased due to the fair share of TV money which is a deal made between La Liga and TV. In 2017-18 the bill wages of Atletico Madrid’s are improved as of the 10% from total as growing from £164 million to £180 million. The great report players also extended their contracts to the club.
| PLAYER | AGE | Yearly Salary | CONTRACT LEFT |
| Jan Oblak (GK) | 25 | £90,000 | 3 Years (2021) |
| Alejandro Dos Santos Ferreira (GK) | 19 | £10,000 | 3 Years (2021) |
| Axel Werner (GK) | 22 | £30,000 | 3 Years (2021) |
| José Giménez |
23 | £60,000 | 2 Years (2020) |
|
Diego Godín
|
33 | £120,000 | 1 Year (2019) |
|
Sergio González
|
22 | £50,000 | 4 Years (2022) |
|
Lucas Hernández
|
25 | £50,000 | 4 Years (2022) |
|
Filipe Luís
|
32 | £90,000 | 1 Year (2019) |
|
Stefan Savic
|
27 | £70,000 | 2 Years (2020) |
|
Juanfran
|
33 | £70,000 | 1 Year (2019) |
|
Sime Vrsaljko
|
26 | £50,000 | 4 Years (2022) |
| Gabi | 34 | £90,000 | 1 Year (2019) |
| Koke | 26 | £120,000 | 6 Years (2024) |
| Thomas Partey | 24 | £40,000 | 5 Years (2023) |
| Vitolo | 28 | £75,000 | 4 Years (2022) |
| Saúl Ñíguez | 23 | £90,000 | 8 Years (2026) |
| Ángel Correa | 23 | £65,000 | 1 Year (2019) |
| Kevin Gameiro | 30 | £90,000 | 2 Years (2020) |
|
Antoine Griezmann
|
26 | £200,000 | 4 Years (2022) |
| Fernando Torres | 33 | £75,000 | Last Year (2018) |
|
Diego Costa
|
29 | £160,000 | 3 Years (2021) |