Former Newcastle United striker Andy Carroll is currently earning €1614 a month at Bordeaux, a figure which doesn’t put him in the top ten earners at the club.
Sud Ouest have an article detailing the current salaries at the French club today, covering the various wages and bonuses currently being paid out.
Carroll has been enjoying something of a late renaissance at the French club this season, admitting at the start of the season that he is loving life in the French lower leagues.
Reports at the time explained that he was earning around €3,500 a month, with the former Newcastle man later revealing that his wages didn’t even cover the rent on the apartment he was living in.
Later reports then suggested he was actually earning less than €2,500 a month, but it seems this was actually way over the top.
Sud Ouest now report that the former Newcastle man current earns €1614 per month, meaning he is the fifteenth highest earner on the wage bill. He will earn a bonus of €2000 if he reaches ten goals or assists and then the same sum every five after that.
That figure actually puts him on €1,400 per month net, lower than the French minimum wage for a 35-hour week as that stands at €1801.80. That means the striker is hired part-time.
However, his salary could rise to €13,000 a month if Bordeaux are promoted, and he remains at the club at that point.
It’s certainly a far cry from the big wages he was earning at Newcastle and Liverpool, but also further proof that his insistence he wasn’t there for the money was 100% correct.
