Here’s what Chucky Lozano will make not to play for San Diego FC in 2026
The reply: $9.33 million.
The query: How a lot is San Diego FC paying Mexico winger Hirving “Chucky” Lozano not to play this season?
The Major League Soccer Players Association, because it does twice yearly, launched its spring batch of wage numbers Tuesday for each participant on each workforce. SDFC ranks fifth in complete workforce compensation at $24.4 million, behind Inter Miami ($54.6 million), LAFC ($32.7 million), Atlanta United ($27.9 million), LA Galaxy ($26.4 million) and Vancouver ($24.6 million).
Subtract Lozano’s $9.33 million in assured compensation, and SDFC — which sits thirteenth in the Western Conference heading into Wednesday’s match towards Austin FC at Snapdragon Stadium — plunges to twenty third out of the 30 MLS golf equipment on payroll at $15.1 million.
The MLSPA supplies two numbers for every participant: present annualized base wage and annualized common assured compensation.
Lozano is ready to make $6 million in base wage and a further $3.33 million in complete compensation. The $9.33 million complete ranks fourth this season in MLS behind Inter Miami’s Lionel Messi ($28.3 million), LAFC’s Son Heung-min ($11.2 million) and Inter Miami’s Rodrigo De Paul ($9.7 million).
Last season, earlier than a fallout with the membership resulted in his banishment, Lozano’s wage ranked fifth in the league at $7.63 million — $6 million in base wage and $1.63 million in further assured compensation.
The assured compensation quantity contains signing bonuses annualized over the size of the deal, together with choice years, plus advertising and marketing bonuses and agent charges. It does not embrace efficiency bonuses, the MLSPA factors out, “because there is no guarantee that the player will hit those bonuses.”
Messi’s $28.3 million is greater than the complete payroll for 28 of the league’s 30 groups. And that is only a fraction of what he’s believed to do.
“The reason that I need to have sponsors and for them to be world class is because players are expensive,” Bloomberg quoted Inter Miami proprietor Jorge Mas earlier this 12 months. “I pay Messi — worth every penny — but it’s $70 million to $80 million a year. Across everything.”
After Lozano, Danish winger Anders Dreyer is SDFC’s highest-paid participant at $3.5 million, up from $1.1 million final season. He’s the one different Designated Player on the roster.
Three others make seven figures: Scottish ahead Lewis Morgan ($1.87 million), Danish ahead Marcus Ingvartsen ($1.8 million) and Danish midfielder Jeppe Tverskov ($1.1 million), a $400,000 bump from final season.
Amahl Pellegrino, a late-season acquisition who changed Lozano in the beginning lineup, made $912,000 final season. Pellegrino took a pay lower to stick with SDFC at age 35; he is making $645,000 this season.
Oft-injured defender Andres Reyes, who has made one MLS look for 44 minutes over the previous two seasons with SDFC, made $807,000 final 12 months and is slated to obtain $879,000 this 12 months.
