Top Salaries in the 2014/15 Italian Serie A

Here is a list of the top paid football players in the 2014/15 season of the Italian Serie A, according to Gazzetta dello Sport.

The figures below show the weekly salaries that players receive from their respective clubs.

Please note that some of the top Serie A players have individual sponsorship deals with their clubs' main sponsors, but those figures are not included in the numbers below.

Here are the top paid players in the 2014/15 Italian Serie A:

1. Daniele de Rossi - Roma - £100,000
2. Gonzalo Higuain - Napoli - £84,000
3. Carlos Tevez - Juventus - £70,000
4. Mario Gomez - Fiorentina - £65,000
5. Gianluigi Buffon - Juventus - £61,000
5. Arturo Vidal - Juventus - £61,000
5. Fernando Torres - AC Milan - £61,000
5. Philippe Mexes - AC Milan - £61,000
9. Andrea Pirlo - Juventus - £58,000
10. Marco Borriello - Roma - £54,000
10. Riccardo Montolivo - AC Milan - £54,000
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12. Nigel de Jong - AC Milan - £54,000
13. Fernando Llorente - Juventus - £54,000
14. Nemanja Vidic - Inter - £50,000
14. Rodrigo Palacio - Inter - £50,000
16. Miralem Pjanic - Roma - £49,000
17. Hernanes - Inter - £46,000
18. Gervinho - Roma - £45,000

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Some other notable names:

Diego Lopez - AC Milan - £38,000
Ashley Cole - AS Roma - £35,000
Paul Pogba - Juventus - £23,000

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The highest paid player of all times in Italian Serie A was Samuel Eto'o, who received a £160,000 / week salary during his time at Inter Milan.

Fernando Torres, who moved from Chelsea to AC Milan this summer, will receive £115,000 / week from his previous club in addition to his current salary.

Serie A salaries are on a steady decline in recent years, showing that the top Italian league is falling behind the English Premier League and the Spanish La Liga.

It is quite incredible that one of the world's best young players, Paul Pogba, is playing for £23,000 / week at Juventus.