Source: Corriere della Sera.
6,5 million €: Maradona (Napoli)
4,0 million €: Rummenigge (Inter)
2,7 million €: Sócrates (Fiorentina)
2,5 million €: Zico (Udinese)
2,0 million €: Toninho Cerezo (Roma)
1,8 million €: Falcão (Roma)
1,7 million €: Schachner (Torino)
1,5 million €: Júnior (Torino), Wilkins (Milan)
1,3 million €: Passarella (Fiorentina)
1,2 million €: Boniek (Juventus), Briegel & Elkjær (Verona), Hateley (Milan)
1,1 million €: R. Díaz (Avellino), Souness (Sampdoria)
1 million €: Platini (Juventus), Strömberg (Atalanta); T. Francis (Sampdoria)
900.000 €: Bertoni (Napoli), Brady (Inter)
750.000 €: Batista (Lazio)
700.000 €: Corneliusson (Como)
650.000 €; Coeck (Ascoli)
600.000 €: Edinho (Udinese), H. Müller (Como)
500.000 €: Lars Larsson (Atalanta), P. Hernández (Ascoli), Barbadillo (Avellino)
250.000 €: M. Laudrup (Lazio)
9: Kh. Rummenigge (West Germany)
7: Fischer (West Germany), Zlatko Vujović (Yugoslavia)
6: Arnesen (Denmark)
5: Kaltz (West Germany), Platini (France), Vandenbergh (Belgium), Blokhin (Soviet Union), Smolarek (Poland), Kouis (Greece)
4: Slavkov (Bulgaria), Welzl (Austria), Ceulemans (Belgium), Shengelia (Soviet Union)
3: Schachner & Krankl (Austria), Littbarski (West Germany), Daley, Robinson & Stapleton (Ireland), Lacombe & Six (France), Andreyev (Soviet Union), Walsh (Wales), Nehoda & Kozák (Czechoslovakia), McDermott & Mariner (England), Fazekas & L. Kiss (Hungary), Sulser (Switzerland), J. Robertson (Scotland), Jordão (Portugal), Tabak (Israel), Streich (GDR), Halilhodžić (Yugoslavia), Elkjær (Denmark), Graziani (Italy)
2: Kostadinov (Bulgaria), Jara & Prohaska (Austria), Schuster & Breitner (West Germany), Lawrenson & Grealish (Ireland), A. Mühren & Van Kooten (Holland), Larios, Zimako & Soler (France), Sigurvinsson (Iceland), Gavrilov & Oganesian (Soviet Union), Giles, Flynn & L. James (Wales), Janecka & Vízek (Czechoslovakia), Woodcock & Brooking (England), Iordanescu (Romania), Hareide & Thoresen (Norway), Nyilasi & Balint (Hungary), Barberis (Switzerland), Humberto Coelho & Manuel Fernandes (Portugal), G. Armstrong (Northern Ireland), Damti (Israel), Schnuphase (GDR), Petrovic, Pantelic & Šurjak (Yugoslavia), Collovati, Bettega & Conti (Italy), Kostikos & Mavros (Greece)
In bold text: players scoring at least three goals in the 1982 World Cup.
Values estimated by weekly magazine Guerin Sportivo April 1980, in perspective of the opening of Italian borders. Spanish players, extremely reluctant to leave their country, not taken into consideration.
In Italics, players that eventually played in the Serie A.
3000 m. lire (apprx 1,5 m€):
Maradona (Argentinos Juniors)
1.000.000€:
Zico (Flamengo)
550.000-650.000€:
T. Francis (Nottingham Forest), Woodcock (Köln), Cunningham (Real Madrid)
500.000-600.000€:
Brady (Arsenal), Sócrates (Corinthians)
450.000-550.000€:
Kh Rummenigge (Bayern Munich), H. Müller (Stuttgart)
400.000-500.000€:
Birtles (Nottingham Forest), Dalglish (Liverpool), Keegan (HSV), Schachner (Austria Vienna), Krankl (First Vienna)
350.000-450.000€:
Stapleton (Arsenal), Ward (Brighton), Regis (West Bromwich), Coppell (Man United), K. Allofs (Fortuna Düsseldorf), Kaltz (HSV), Platini (St-Etienne), Prohaska (Austria Vienna), Simonsen (Barcelona)
300.000-400.000€:
Case (Liverpool), Mariner (Ipswich), D. Müller (Köln), Breitner (Bayern Munich), Stielike (Real Madrid), Gomes (FC Porto)
250.000-350.000€:
R. Kennedy & Johnson (Liverpool), Thijssen (Ipswich), Wallace (Coventry), Williams (Southampton), Neumann (Köln), Kempe (Duisburg), Dell'Haye (M'gladbach), Hartwig (HSV), Abramczik (Schalke 04), Bonhof (Valencia), Carpegiani (Flamengo), Falcão (Internacional), Ischia (Vélez)
200.000-300.000€:
McDermott (Liverpool), McQueen (Man United), Ritchie (Morton), Schuster (Köln), Nickel (M'gladbach), Hrubesch (HSV), D. Hoeness (Bayern Munich), Sigurvinsson (Standard de Liège), Vandenbergh (Lierse), Van der Elst (Anderlecht), Ceulemans (Brugge), Pécout (FC Nantes), Tahamata (Ajax), Kist (AZ '67), Pétursson (Feyenoord), Morena (Rayo Vallecano), D. Bertoni (Sevilla), Dirceu (Atlético de Madrid), Reinaldo & Jordão (Benfica), Sulser (Grasshoppers), Júlio César (Flamengo), Jorge Mendonça (Vasco da Gama), Nílton Batata (Santos), Toninho Cerezo (Atlético Mineiro), Passarella & R. Díaz (River Plate)
150.000-250.000€:
Somner (St Mirren), McAdam (Partick Thistle), McCluskey (Celtic), Hannes (M'gladbach), Fischer (Schalke 04), Voordeckers (Standard de Liège), Van der Eycken (Brugge), Elkjær (Lokeren), Rep, Zimako & Rocheteau (St-Etienne), Alves (Paris SG), Krol, La Ling, Arnesen & Lerby (Ajax), R. van der Kerkhof, W. van der Kerkhof & Brandts (PSV), Zenon & Careca (Guarani), Pita (Santos), Edinho (Fluminense), Randazzo (Boca Juniors), Beto Alonso (River Plate), Bochini (Independiente), Gallego (Newell's Old Boys), Reinaldi (Talleres Córdoba), J. Olsen (Næstved)
100.000-200.000€:
Deyna (Man City), Edström (Standard de Liège), Christophe (Monaco), Stopyra (Sochaux), Wildschut (PSV), Vermeulen (Roda), Ponte (Grasshoppers), Zé Sérgio (São Paulo), Fortunato (Estudiantes), Bravo (Talleres Córdoba)
100.000-150.000€:
H. Jensen (Ajax), Thychosen (M'gladbach)
