Kalvin Phillips joins Man Utd ‘mistake’ among Every Prem club’s highest-paid players

Ian Watson
Kalvon Phillips Casemiro and Martin Odegaard aren't short of a few quid.
Kalvon Phillips Casemiro and Martin Odegaard aren't short of a few quid.

Five Premier League clubs have new highest-earners this season and here they all are. Some are providing better value for money than others…

Figures taken from Capology

 

Arsenal – Martin Odegaard, Kai Havertz
Odegaard’s new deal to tie him to the Gunners until 2028 reportedly saw the captain surpass Kai Havertz as the club’s biggest earner. But some reports suggest Havertz, on £280,000 per week, has retained that status. It’s clear from whom they are getting best value.

 

Aston Villa – Youri Tielemans, Boubacar Kamara, Clement Lenglet
A three-way tie to be the Villans’ biggest earner, with Lenglet on loan from Barcelona. Villa are committed to paying the other pair for four more years. Which, in Tielemans’ case, appears a mistake.

 

Bournemouth – Justin Kluivert
Bournemouth are forking out just over a million a week on wages, with summer signing Kluivert trousering more than anyone after signing a five-year deal upon joining from Roma.

 

Brentford – Ben Mee
Mee chose Brentford as a free agent in 2022 as they were offering the veteran two-year terms that made him their best-paid player, on more than double what Ivan Toney currently earns. Neal Maupay is also on two and a half-times what Toney makes. So you can understand why he fancies that big move.

 

Brighton – Ansu Fati
The on-loan winger is comfortably the highest earner in the Brighton dressing room on account of his contract at Barcelona. The Seagulls are said to be paying 80 per cent of his wages this season, making them liable for around £160,000 a week.

 

Burnley – Josh Brownhill, Jack Cork
The Clarets’ biggest earners are both in the final six months of their contracts, each said to be worth £45,000 a week. Jay Rodriguez is only five-grand-a-week behind and his deal is up this year too.

 

Chelsea – Raheem Sterling
Sterling is way out in front of his team-mates in the earnings stakes, with the winger raking in around £325,000 a week. Captain Reece James is closest, making £250,000 a week for at least another five years or until Real or Bayern come for him because the Blues fancy that sweet, sweet profit.

 

Crystal Palace – Eberechi Eze, Dean Henderson, Michael Olise
Eze’s new deal in November elevated him to Henderson and Olise’s salary level, with all three having at least three and a half years remaining on their terms.

 

Everton – Abdoulaye Doucoure
It isn’t likely to have gone down well with Jordan Pickford that he is no longer Everton’s highest earner. That title belongs to Doucoure after the midfielder signed new terms in November.

 

Fulham – Raul Jimenez
The Mexico striker replaced Aleksandar Mitrovic as Fulham’s centre-forward and their biggest earner when he signed a two-year deal worth around £100,000 a week. Mitrovic won’t get out of bed for that in Saudi.

 

Liverpool – Mo Salah
Liverpool had little choice but to smash their wage structure to keep Salah when talking terms in 2022. Halfway through those terms, the Reds should have a think about their next move. Not just with Salah. All four of their top earners are out of contract in the next 18 months.

 

Luton – Albert Sambi Lokonga
Sandwiched between two of the four-best paid players in the Premier League is an Arsenal loanee on around a sixth of what this fella earns…

 

Manchester City – Kevin De Bruyne 
De Bruyne is City’s highest earner and the best-paid player in the Premier League, with around £400,000 in his weekly pay packet.

 

Manchester United – Casemiro
The Brazilian looked good value for his £350,000 a week last season. This season he’s been held up of an example of where United have got it wrong with their recruitment.

 

Newcastle – Bruno Guimaraes
The Magpies gave the Brazilian a deal worth £160,000 a week in October, but that doesn’t mean he’ll be sticking around., Apparently it contains a release clause worth £98million that can be paid in three instalments, which is attractive to PSG and Liverpool.

 

Nottingham Forest – Divock Origi
The ex-Liverpool striker is on a big salary at AC Milan, which Forest have agreed to cover in full during his year by the Trent. Mistake.

 

Sheffield United – Ben Brereton-Diaz, Rhian Brewster 
The Blades will be hoping for better value from Brereton-Diaz during his loan spell compared to what they are getting from ex-Liverpool striker Brewster, who has managed only two starts this season after a long spell in the sidelines while pocketing around £35,000 a week.

 

Son Heung-min celebrates with boss Ange Postecoglou after a 5-2 win at Burnley

Tottenham – Heung-min Son
The South Korea star is already making more than any of his team-mates at around £190,000 a week, but Spurs are keen to offer him new terms to avoid another Harry Kane situation as he approaches his expiration year of 2025.

 

West Ham – Kalvin Phillips
The Hammers’ new boy immediately became the club’s highest-paid player when they agreed with Manchester City to cover his £150,000-a-week wages in full for the rest of the season. At City, there are around a dozen players on more.

 

Wolves – Pablo Sarabia
Wolves had little choice but to slash their wage bill during the summer, with only Sarabia of last season’s top five earners still at the club.