The footballer missed every second day of work with the team last season.

One of the British bookmaker portals, Betiton Sports, compiled quite interesting statistics at the end of the 2020/21 season as to how much football clubs spent on paying salaries to football players who were in the infirmary during the football year for various reasons..

It should come as no surprise that one of the most traumatic players in the European top leagues, Real Madrid striker Eden Hazard, has ended up at the top of the pivot table, thanks to the number of game days missed and the size of his salary..

So, in 252 days (69% of the calendar year), a footballer with a monthly salary of 407 thousand. pounds sterling "

The second in this rating was the midfielder of Catalan Barcelona Philippe Coutinho, who receives a little less a month, so the “Blaugranas” spent a little less impressive amount on his maintenance..

It is noteworthy that Christian Pulisic and Javier Pastore spent more time in the infirmary than their colleagues in the workshop - 262 days - however, the level of wages of these performers is almost three times less, so the American and Argentine only round out the top 10.

As for the consolidated rating of European clubs from the top leagues, here Real Madrid is confidently entrenched in the first place.. Not without the help of Eden Azar, of course, who accounted for almost a third of the total amount of "

But the French Paris Saint-Germain managed to break into the second line, bypassing Catalan Barcelona in the amount of about 300 thousand. pounds sterling, but at the same time having 22 days less recovery period for football players on average.