Tottenham’s highest-paid players’ wages compared to the Championship’s top earners

 Tottenham are in the relegation zone with four games to go as they face a last-ditch effort to preserve their Premier League status, which has been intact since the competition’s inception.

Too big to go down? Their wage bill alone should be.

They finished just above the bottom three last season, but this has been something else. They were already mathematically safe this time last year, but their fate now is far from in their own hands.

The prospect of one of the so-called ‘big six’ dropping into the Championship presents plenty of questions. Which players would stay and which would go?

Until any of that is decided, Spurs would be taking a huge wage bill with them down into the second tier compared to their would-be opponents.

Indeed, Spurs are estimated to have the seventh-highest payroll in the Premier League at present. Would those kind of wages be sustainable in the Championship? Probably not.

For perspective, we’ve taken a look at the current best-paid players in the Championship. Ironically, several of them play for Leicester City, who are going down to League One.

Championship’s highest-paid players

1. Harry Winks – £90,000 per week

2. Ricardo Pereira – £80,000

3. Patson Daka – £70,000

4. Jannik Vestergaard – £60,000

5. Matt Targett – £60,000

6. Oliver Skipp – £50,000

7. Finn Azaz – £50,000

8. Hamza Choudhury – £50,000

9. Carlos Vicente – £50,000

10. Jamaal Lascelles – £50,000

Former Spurs midfielder Winks is the best-paid player in the Championship, according to Capology.

His Leicester teammates Pereira, Daka, Vestergaard, Skipp (also ex-Spurs), Choudhury and Lascelles are also in the top 10.

With those players removed – and Matt Targett, since it remains to be seen what happens after his loan spell at Middlesbrough from Newcastle – the list of the Championship’s top earners before Spurs potentially come into play would look very different, as such: