ROBBIE KEANE HAS dropped out of the top 10 of Major League Soccer’s highest earners but will still take home a cool $3.5 million this year.
It is a substantial drop for the veteran LA Galaxy striker, though.
In 2015, he raked in $4.5 million.
Still, it’s not half-bad for someone who turns 36 in July.
From the Galaxy’s three Designated Players (DP) – the high-profile members of a squad who fall outside the league’s salary cap – Keane will earn the least this year.
Steven Gerrard will net a guaranteed $6.1m while Mexican attacker Gio dos Santos will get $4.2m.
Kaka remains the highest earner in the league, getting $7.16 m this season with Toronto’s Italian international Sebastian Giovinco – who was voted as the league’s best player last season – getting $7.11m.
To put it in context, those two players earn more in a season than the entire squad of fourteen MLS clubs.
Toronto FC spend the most on salaries – $21.7m – ahead of New York City FC ($21.1m) and LA Galaxy ($18.1m).
Meanwhile, Kevin Doyle will earn $1.1m playing as a DP for the Colorado Rapids this year. His team-mate Sean St. Ledger will make $194,000.
MLS top salaries: 2016
Kaka (Orlando City SC) – $7.16m
Sebastian Giovinco (Toronto FC) – $7.11m
Michael Bradley (Toronto FC) – $6.5m
Steven Gerrard (LA Galaxy) – $6.1m
Frank Lampard (New York City FC) – $6m
Andrea Pirlo (New York City FC): $5.9m
David Villa (New York City FC) – $5.6m
Jozy Altidore (Toronto FC) – $4.75m
Clint Dempsey (Seattle Sounders) – $4.6m
Gio dos Santos (LA Galaxy) – $4.2m
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Fine margins. If the ref had not allowed an extra play, Cork would have been All-Ireland champs in 2013. The 2013 CLare vintage, re-discovered their pulse against KIlkenny last Sunday. Yet Tipperary probobly should have beaten them in Ennis. For the want of a solitary point, many a team perishes. For all the tactics and amazing players, luck plays a huge part also.
Very true Eddie, particularly for knock out cup competitions such as the all ireland, which suggests the league is prob a better gauge of strength in depth of a team over time
Awh ye, blame the poor auld ref lol.. match is never over till the whistle is blown eddie. Anyway we proved who were the real masters in da replay
I’d love a sitcom based on the Cork county board. Frank as a Basil Fawlty type figure
Unfair on poor Basil !
Cork could have been competitive for a few more years instead fading quickly after 06
If my auntie had liathroidi she’d be my uncle
Donal Og will get his day in the spotlight this summer. All the shitalk he has been spooning the Cork public and the country in general will be back to haunt him when Clare’s tactics get exposed under pressure.
A bullshit artist of the highest calibre
Jeez the begrudgery is strong in this one, the man was a very good communicator and analyst on tv, and he now seems to have contributed positively to a previously poisonous team, deal with it
Rebels? The only rebel they ever had they shot him!
Looks like your a bit of a historian there Vinny and i suppose you know who shot him too?? you little bolox!!!