Manchester City Player Wages [2025]
By virtue of being four-in-a-row champions, Manchester City – and their boardroom bosses, in particular – have plenty of cash to splash on new signings and that goes for the weekly wage bill, too, with some of their players being the best-paid in the entirety of England’s top division, the Premier League.
Pep Guardiola, who has revolutionised the club in all facets since joining from Bayern Munich in the summer of 2016, has been behind plenty of the club’s business and, as the old adage goes, the 53-year-old Catalan native has his fingers in a lot of pies from manning the touchline to player recruitment.
It’s no secret that Manchester City, one-time winners of Europe’s top table, are not afraid to pay their players big bucks to keep on being England’s dominant force – but how much exactly is each player, from the ever-important Erling Haaland to Rico Lewis, lining their pockets with on a weekly basis?
Goalkeepers
Ederson and Ortega just £10,000-per-week apart
Ever since joining Manchester City from Benfica in the summer of 2017, Ederson has been Guardiola’s go-to choice in between the sticks thanks to his unrivalled on-the-ball ability combined with his superb shot stopping. He earns £100,000-per-week.
But as of late, Stefan Ortega – who is widely considered to be one of the best back-up goalkeepers in football right now – has been trusted by the reigning champions. The £90,000-per-week earner has seemingly won the trust of Guardiola and his entourage, having played a handful of games this term.
Concluding the club’s three-man goalkeeping department is the seasoned glove bearer, Scott Carson. A four-cap England international, 39-year-old Carson last played for the one-time Champions League winners in 2020/21 but still pockets £30,000 every week.
Defenders
Stones and Gvardiol among City’s highest earners in defence.
Given the plethora of talent Guardiola and his entourage have at their disposal from a defensive standpoint, there are very few dead-certs. The closest thing to that this term has been £200,000-per-week earner Josko Gvardiol, who can play at centre-back or on the left of a four-man defensive constellation.
Only John Stones, 30, earns more per week than the aforementioned Croatian. Capable of travelling into midfield to add steel in the middle of the park, the experienced Englishman is contracted until the summer of 2026 and is earning £250,000-per-week.
Manuel Akanji and Ruben Dias, cited as one of the best centre-backs in the Premier League right now, both earn £180,000 every week in the east of the football-crazed city of Manchester. Elsewhere, former Bournemouth hotshot Nathan Ake was handed a new contract, worth £160,000-per-week, in June 2027, which highlights the Dutchman’s importance to Guardiola.
Kyle Walker’s days at the club are numbered after he informed them of his desire to leave but, until he does, he’ll pocket £175,000 a week, while Rico Lewis – his compatriot’s natural replacement – is on much less at £25,000 a week.
Coming through the academy ranks at the moment, 22-year-old Josh Wilson-Esbrand – who made his senior debut in September 2021 – pockets a lowly, in comparison to his fellow teammates, £7,000 on a week-by-week basis.
Midfielders
Four engine room operators earn north of £200,000-per-week
Things haven’t gone as sweetly as expected for the reigning champions this season – and that can be largely attributed to Rodri’s absence. Spain’s Euro 2024 fulcrum, having won the 2024 Ballon d’Or recently, is certainly worthy of his wages of £220,000-per-week.
Creator-in-chief Kevin De Bruyne is among the best footballers whose contracts expire in 2025 but, until then, Manchester City are paying him a lofty wage of £400,000-per-week. Everything the Belgian, 33, touches turns to gold.
Inbetween De Bruyne and Rodri, two of the club’s most important assets, is Bernardo Silva on £300,000-per-week and Ilkay Gundogan, a player currently enjoying his second stint in England’s top division, who earns £230,000 every week.
Midfielder Mateo Kovacic has acted as the engine room’s mature head since Rodri picked up an ACL injury but has failed to pull up trees and prove to Guardiola that he’s a deserved starter. That said, the 30-year-old still pockets £150,000-per-week.
That’s £20,000 more than former Wolverhampton Wanderers man Matheus Nunes. A central midfielder by trade, the 26-year-old has regularly played in a make-shift back line under Guardiola this term.
James McAtee, should he remain at the club, has all the tools to become a bonafide star in the Premier League. Having signed on the dotted line in July 2023, the youngster was awarded with a pay rise in the form of a £15,000-per-week contract.
Forwards
After putting pen to paper on a new nine-and-a-half-year contract, staying at the club until 2034, Haaland is now the Premier League’s highest earner at £525,000-per-week. The enigmatic Norwegian, 24, has left plenty of goalscoring records in ruins at his feet and, as long as he stays fit, he’s only poised to continue.
And while Leeds-born Haaland has paid back his wages with his in-front-of-goal potency, someone that hasn’t is Jack Grealish. An entertainer-in-chief at Aston Villa, Guardiola and his entourage spent big – £100 million – on his services in the summer of 2021, all while handing him £300,000 every week.
Named Premier League Player of the Season in 2023/24, you could say that academy graduate Phil Foden is thoroughly deserving of his £225,000-per-week wage. But on the back of his difficult start to 2024/25, that argument is flawed.
Manchester City have, over the last year or so, invested in two tricky, dynamic wingers in Jeremy Doku and Savio. Although the latter is still in their bedding-in period, he earns £40,000 a week at the Etihad Stadium, while the former earns £50,000.
The Belgian finds himself in the same wage bracket as promising youngster Oscar Bobb, who also sees £50,000 enter his bank account every seven days. As one of the best young players in world football, the 21-year-old has the ability to be instrumental for the club for years to come.
