Jesse Lingard (32, FC Seoul), a former member of the English national team, will be the highest paid player in the first division of the 2024 Korean professional football league.
British daily The Sun reported on Feb. 13 (Korea time), “Jessie Lingard signed a 910,000-pound contract with FC Seoul for this season. She became the highest paid player in the K-League 1.”
Jesse Lingard joined FC Seoul on Feb. 8. According to Transfermarkt, a media outlet specializing in the transfer market, the deal offers one-plus-one-year conditions that include extension options. Daegu FC’s 1.55 billion won (1.2 million U.S. dollars) payment to Cesinha of Brazil is the highest paid player in the first division of the Korea Football Association in 2023.
Cesinha’s 1.55 billion won last season includes ▲ basic salary ▲ playing allowance ▲ winning allowance ▲ attack point allowance △ Korean Football Association Cup △ Asian Football Confederation (AFC) club competition.
In other words, the settlement for all official matches of Daegu FC in 2023 when Cesinha played is 1.55 billion won. The Sun believes that FC Seoul promised Jesse Lingard 910,000 pounds of net guarantee without options for the first division of the Korean professional football league in 2024.
Therefore, if Jesse Lingard plays the FC Seoul schedule normally without any problems such as injury, it is very likely to be the most actual payment for all K-League 1 players this season.
“Jessie Lingard was welcomed as a hero in Korea after joining FC Seoul, which surprised everyone,” said The Sun, one of the UK’s two largest newspapers by sales volume, noting that he is treated as a star beyond the sports world.
▲The opening of the 2024 K-League 1 on March 1 ▲FFC Seoul, the sixth-time winner of the first division of the Korean professional football league, ▲Information such as Jesse Lingard, who became a teammate of Ki Sung-yueng (35), who scored 15 points and 11 assists in 187 games in the English Premier League (EPL), was also introduced to British readers through The Sun. 핑크알바
Ki Sung-yueng played in the EPL from 2012 to 2019 with defensive and central midfielders as his main positions. Jesse Lingard scored goals or assists in five different positions from 2014 to 2023: ▲ offensive midfielder ▲ light wing ▲ left wing ▲ second striker ▲ center forward.