Still, discussions have reportedly been \u201con hold and up in the air\u201d over the last five months due to wage demands from Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior<\/a>. According to AS<\/a>, the 24-year-old currently makes an average salary of \u20ac15 million ($17.4 million), but he is asking for near \u20ac20 million ($23.3 million) net per season moving forward. <\/p>\n The \u20ac5 million ($5.8 million) increase might not seem like a large leap for Real Madrid, especially after the Brazil international played pivotal roles in bringing home Los Blancos\u2019 14th and 15th Champions League<\/a> titles, among numerous other trophies.<\/p>\n The increased wage, though, would make Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior the highest paid player on the team in terms of base salary, surpassing even Mbapp\u00e9; the Frenchman earns \u20ac15 million ($17.4 million) in wages per season.<\/p>\n Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 (left) currently has the highest salary on Real Madrid. \/ IMAGO\/AFLOSPORT<\/p>\n There would be nothing stopping Mbapp\u00e9, then, from demanding more money from Real Madrid. After all, the France captain outperformed Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior last season, bagging 44 goals across all competitions<\/a> and winning the Pichichi Trophy<\/a>, along with the European Golden Boot.<\/p>\n Jude Bellingham could also come to the table in search of an increased salary as well. The midfielder found the back of the net 15 times in the 2024\u201325 season, only seven less than Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior\u2019s 22-goal haul. The England international also has one of the highest work-rates on the team.<\/p>\n The potential domino effect is exactly what Real Madrid want to avoid. AS report the club does not \u201cwant to break the salary scale\u201d with Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior\u2019s new deal.<\/p>\n Either Real Madrid or the superstar forward, though, will have to compromise if they want to make real headway in renewal discussions. <\/p>\n READ THE LATEST REAL MADRID NEWS, TRANSFER RUMORS AND MORE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior\u2019s ongoing contract talks with Real Madrid have the club reportedly concerned over a coming \u201cwage war\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-13924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n