The left-back has always been a curious creature — not quite a defender, not quite a winger — living in the in-between, like the kid who sits on the porch swing while the grown-ups talk inside. They aren’t often the headline-makers, not the golden boys up front or the midfield generals barking orders. No, the left-back is something else entirely: part locksmith, part artist, part last-ditch savior.
And yet, in today’s game — a world where money falls like summer rain — even these quiet guardians of the touchline have been swept up in the storm. Clubs pay fortunes for the right left-back, the kind who can turn defense into poetry and make 90 yards feel like a front yard.
Here Are The 10 Highest-Paid Left-Backs in World Football 2025
10. David Raum – £120,918 per week (RB Leipzig)
There’s something quiet about David Raum, like the kid in the back of class who knew all the answers but only spoke when called upon. A left-back by trade, but in spirit, he’s a wanderer, drifting up the touchline like a moth caught between porchlight and dusk.
Leipzig pays him well for his versatility — over £120,000 a week — not bad for someone who started out in the muddy fields of Greuther Fürth.
9. Raphael Guerreiro – £128,125 per week (Bayern Munich)
Raphael Guerreiro moves like he’s got somewhere important to be — nimble, twitchy, a man with too many ideas to stay put. From France to Germany, from left-back to midfield and back again, he wears adaptability like an old pair of boots.
Now at Bayern Munich, he’s still the same player who treats the left flank like a page to be scribbled on as they pay him just shy of £130,000 a week to keep the opposition guessing — and they do, every single time.
8. Oleksandr Zinchenko – £150,000 per week (Arsenal)
Oleksandr Zinchenko has the heart of a poet and the engine of a train rolling through the Ukrainian plains. From Manchester City’s bright lights to Arsenal’s gritty revival, his story meanders, a man always searching for home somewhere on the pitch.
For £150,000 a week, Arsenal trust him to be wherever they need him most — midfield, left-back, or somewhere in between.
7. Luke Shaw – £150,000 per week (Manchester United)
Luke Shaw’s tale reads like one of those long, humid Southern summers — the kind where hope flickers like fireflies and disappointment sticks to your skin.
Injuries knocked the Manchester United defender down more times than any man deserves, but still, here he stands, pulling £150,000 a week, as much a survivor as a footballer. On his best days, Shaw is a man who can make left-back feel like a front-row seat at a miracle.
6. Andy Robertson – £160,000 per week (Liverpool)
There’s a scrappiness to Andy Robertson, the kind of player you’d find kicking a ball against the side of a barn until the sun dipped below the horizon. From Hull City to Anfield glory, Robertson has always been more grit than glamour, but at £160,000 a week, Liverpool pay for more than talent — they pay for heart, for hunger, for the kid who never forgot how far he’d come.
5. Ferland Mendy – £169,140 per week (Real Madrid)
Ferland Mendy has the quiet confidence of a man who knows the weight of the shirt he wears. In Madrid, left-backs aren’t just defenders — they’re mythmakers, tasked with painting beauty down the flank. Mendy’s feet move like they’re whispering secrets to the grass, and Real pays him nearly £170,000 a week to keep telling those tales.
4. Marc Cucurella – £175,000 per week (Chelsea)
Marc Cucurella’s curls bounce with the same untamed energy as his game — wild, unpredictable, with a dash of mischief.
Chelsea bet big on him, £50 million worth of faith, and at £175,000 a week, they’re still hoping the man from Barcelona’s backstreets can turn his story into a Stamford Bridge legend. Sometimes, the best left-backs are the ones you never see coming.
3. Alphonso Davies – £182,613 per week (Bayern Munich)
Alphonso Davies doesn’t run so much as he flies, a blur of Canadian brilliance tearing down the wing like a storm rolling over the prairie.
At just 24, he’s already lived a lifetime on the pitch, and Bayern hand him £182,000 a week to keep doing what he does best — making the impossible look easy and the ordinary look slow.
2. Josko Gvardiol – £200,000 per week (Manchester City)
Josko Gvardiol has the face of a boy and the heart of a man who’s carried too much weight too soon. A centre-back by nature, a left-back by necessity, he plays with the calm of someone who knows exactly how much he’s worth — £200,000 a week, to be precise.
In Guardiola’s chess game, Gvardiol is the knight, moving diagonally when no one expects it. At 23, he proves that real defenders are no longer the cheapest seats in the house.
1. Lucas Hernandez – £308,413 per week (PSG)
Lucas Hernandez sits alone at the top, earning more in a week than some folks see in a year. Paris pays him just over £308,000 every seven days to anchor a left flank littered with stardust and expectation.
There’s weight to that money, a burden that bends some men — but Hernandez wears it like a tailored suit, moving through matches with the effortless arrogance of a man who’s been everywhere and won it all.
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