If you want to know why Freddy isn't coming back to MLS just yet
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A few things to bear in mind: We're focusing here exclusively on Europe, though for comparison's sake, the Galaxy's Landon Donovan made $2.05 million in salary in 2010, while young Juan Agudelo earned $40,000 in salary for the Red Bulls. And the just-transferred Benny Feilhaber's reported MLS salary of $400,000 a year will be a slight raise from his wage in Denmark. We don't have every single American salary over there, but we believe this is the best compendium yet, and we've even included prominent non-U.S. national teamers Giuseppe Rossi and Neven Subotic.
Also, when it comes to soccer salaries, nobody knows anything precisely, so treat these numbers not as pence-perfect accounts but as well-informed estimates. Still, you should know that Harris' data -- based partly on salary surveys he conducted with the U.K.'s players union -- have been presented as evidence in a British lawsuit involving player compensation and that IM Scouting's service is used by clubs like Borussia Dortmund, Everton and Bolton.
Player - Club - League - Estimated salary
Brad Friedel - Aston Villa - EPL - $3.44 million
Oguchi Onyewu - Twente - EREDIVISIE - $3.36 million
Clint Dempsey - Fulham - EPL - $3.0 million
Tim Howard - Everton - EPL - $2.6 million
Giuseppe Rossi - Villarreal - LA LIGA - $2.6 million
Jozy Altidore - Bursaspor - TURKEY - $2.2 million
Stuart Holden - Bolton - EPL - $2.15 million
Jermaine Jones - Blackburn - EPL - $1.9 million
Neven Subotic - Borussia Dortmund - BUND - $1.872 million
Jonathan Spector - West Ham - EPL - $1.7 million
Brad Guzan - Aston Villa - EPL - $1.7 million
Steve Cherundolo - Hannover - BUND - $1.583 million
Maurice Edu - Rangers - SCOT - $1.38 million
Marcus Hahnemann - Wolverhampton - EPL - $1.38 million
Michael Bradley - Aston Villa - EPL - $1.24 million
Carlos Bocanegra - Saint-Étienne - LIGUE 1 - $1.21 million
Freddy Adu - Rizespor - TURKEY - $875,000
Eddie Johnson - Preston - ENG CHAMP - $861,000
Zak Whitbread - Norwich - ENG CHAMP - $775,000
Sacha Kljestan - Anderlecht - BELGIUM - $729,500
Clarence Goodson - Brondby - DENMARK - $729,500
Ricardo Clark - Eintracht Frankfurt - BUND - $728,000
Robbie Findley - Nottingham Forest - ENG CHAMP - $603,000
Dominic Cervi - Celtic - SCOT - $517,000
David Yelldell - MSV Duisburg - BUND2 - $438,000
Alejandro Bedoya - Orebro - SWEDEN - $432,172
Mike Grella - Leeds - ENG CHAMP - $388,000
Benny Feilhaber - Aarhus - DENMARK - $374,000
Eric Lichaj - Leeds - ENG CHAMP - $300,000
Frank Simek - Carlisle - ENG LG 1 - $293,000
Edson Buddle - Ingolstadt 04 - BUND2 - $288,000 (half season)
Anton Peterlin - Plymouth - ENG LG 1 - $276,000
Timothy Chandler - Nurnberg - BUND - $219,000
Bobby Wood - 1860 Munich - BUND2 - $73,000