PSG have a very different status to their Champions League quarter-final opponents, as Neymar’s salary covers the entire Atalanta squad wage bill.
The two teams go head-to-head in the opening Final Eight fixture in Lisbon on Wednesday night.
Paris Saint-Germain already travelled to Portugal to set up in their Faro base yesterday, while La Dea are due to leave Bergamo on Monday.
La Gazzetta dello Sport took a look at the finances of these clubs and found a quite extraordinary statistic.
When analysing the wage bills, Neymar alone earns as much as the entire Atalanta team put together.
The Brazilian is reported to have a salary worth €36m per year, whereas the top earners in the Atalanta squad are Papu Gomez, Josip Ilicic and Duvan Zapata on €1.2m per year plus performance-related bonuses.
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BLACOLOGY342
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And Ney has many trophies than the entire Atlanta team too . Add that one too!
Asapade2
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PSG is a big club But Atalanta utilize what they have to the best of their satisfaction
clixa
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this season Atalanta is a testament that money isn't everything💯💯
sufyrumu
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Neymar earns as much as Atalanta. But,Atalanta score far more than PSG.😏
KingJerryTheGreat
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Atalanta staff and players right now after realizing that Neymar combines all their salaries. The dirty truth revealed.....
raynknight
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The hate this Man gets is sometimes unreal , Take his talent and only few(quite possibly only one) can match him. - Few bad decisions of him and people treat him like just another ruined talent , still on his day the best human footballer on planet earth. -