Full Details of Divock Origi's Liverpool Contract and Bonuses Laid Bare as Info Leak Continues

Published on: 05 December 2016

A number of national newspapers across Europe have continued to release information from an enormous data dump from the 'Football Leaks' website, with the details of Divock Origi's Liverpoolcontract revealedby Belgian newspaper Le Soir on Monday night.


The leaked documents show that the young forward received a hefty signing-on bonus of €1.8mwhen he joined the Reds from Lille in 2014, and getting a bump to a more-than generous weekly wage of €62,411.

#FootballLeaks Les contrats des Diables: Origi a touché 2.980 euros la minute contre Crystal Palacehttps://t.co/QDMjor20qu pic.twitter.com/p9UPL6jUqR

That jumped to €65,368-a-week after meeting appearance targets when on loan at Lille in his first season under contract on Merseyside.


Appearance and goal clauses are also littered throughout Origi's contract, with the 21-year-old earning £5,000 per Premier League or Champions League game he starts - and £2,500 if he appears at any time in the game. As such, games like those against Southampton and West Brom which saw him come on in second-half injury time have seen him pocket a couple of grand for just a minute's work.


The Belgian's performance-related clauses have the potential to be even more lucrative than his appearance-based ones though - with £260,000 set to fall into his lap every time he scores 20 Premier League/Champions League goals for the Reds.

Carrasco, Origi, Hazard...: les #FootballLeaks dévoilent les contrats juteux de nombreux Belges https://t.co/NaYNM7KWqU pic.twitter.com/GFCI81DRep

The contract doesn't appear to specify whether the goals have to come in the same season, but does note that the parties agree to refer back to Opta statistics for an official goal count.


12 newspapers, including the Sunday Times, have worked for seven months to comb through 1.9TB of information handed to German paper Der Spiegel earlier in the year. Last Friday saw the initial reporting of the information obtained, with tax scandals galore, and more revelations are expected over the coming days and weeks.


Le Soir's release on Monday night included a number of revelations about player contracts and bonuses - with Roberto Firmino's anti-Arsenal stipulation in his €98m release clause possibly the biggest headline-grabber so far.

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