The Premier League is known as the richest in world football and players from Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United are on some of the highest salaries around.
With each club receiving hundreds of millions in television money, Premier League footballers are extremely well-paid and most of Europe’s highest-paid footballers ply their trade in England.
We’ve done some digging and, courtesy of Capology, have identified the 10 Premier League stars with the highest weekly wage as the 2022-23 season gets underway.
10. Kalidou Koulibaly (Chelsea, £295k)
Koulibaly has finally arrived in the Premier League after years as a semi-mystical rumour mill staple and Chelsea are paying him a wage befitting his world-class status.
After the departures of Antonio Rudiger and Andreas Christensen, Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel moved quickly to sign the Napoli centre-back and he’ll be wearing John Terry’s old No.26 shirt.
9. Jack Grealish (Man City, £300k)
England’s great white hope – summer 2021 version – endured an underwhelming debut season at Manchester City following his £100million move from Villa.
But Grealish remains a player of immense quality, capable of beating his man and delivering incisive passes, and many observers expect him to perform closer to his ability in 2022-23.
“Jack is a number 10,” former City winger Trevor Sinclair told talkSPORT. “He’s one of these star players who gets fans off their seats and gives them excitement and we didn’t really see enough of that last season.
“We saw it against Real Madrid in the game where he came off the bench and was excellent, and I thought that should have been the catalyst to make him believe that he’s good enough this season coming and really hit the ground running.
“The season starts this week and I’m really hoping that he reproduces what we’ve seen him do at Aston Villa.”
8. Raheem Sterling (Chelsea, £325k)
It’s no surprise that Chelsea are paying Sterling £325,000 a week; the summer signing from City represents an upgrade on their exisiting forward options and is one of the best attackers around.
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7. Raphael Varane (Man Utd, £340k)
Varane’s quality has never been in doubt – nobody has four Champions League gold medals alongside winning the World Cup without being able to kick a ball straight – but injuries meant his first season at United was distinctly unmemorable.
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