Mbappe, Benzema, Salah: Who earned the most money per goal scored in 2021/22?

Last season’s European Golden Boot race was quite the hotly contested affair between the likes of Kylian Mbappe, Karim Benzema and Robert Lewandowski.

Ultimately, it was the prolific Pole who would come out on top, bagging 35 goals over the course of a very productive Bundesliga season.

Mbappe and Benzema were off the pace in the end, with Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah even further back.

But just because they might not have scored the most goals, that doesn’t mean that the above-mentioned trio necessarily missed out on topping a different European metric.

While, of course, goals are the currency of football, there is another crucial determining factor that catches the eyes of the best players today – currency itself.

So which of Europe’s biggest stars earned the most money per league goal they scored last season?

Well, thanks to painstaking research done by the folks over at SportPedia, we can answer that very question.

By dividing their salaries by the numbers of goals scored, SportPedia were able to come up with a figure of the average amount each man landed per goal he netted.

15. Martin Terrier: £47,048 per goal (21)14. Dusan Vlahovic: £56,333 per goal (24)13. Moussa Dembele: £126,286 per goal (21)12. Christopher Nkunku: £132,600 per goal (20)11. Anthony Modeste: £156,000 per goal (20)10. Patrik Schick: £177,677 per goal (24)

9. Lautaro Martinez: £188,890 per goal (21)8. Ciro Immobile: £234,963 per goal (27)7. Wissam Ben Yedder: £266,240 per goal (25)6. Erling Haaland: £312,000 per goal (22)

5. Heung-Min Son: £434,087 per goal (23)

Tottenham’s Heung-Min Son enjoyed an electric season in the Premier League coming within inches of securing the domestic Golden Boot all for himself.

He made a pretty penny per goal scored in