By Simon Leyland
According to the website Spotrac, we appear to have a staggering 80 million pounds per year wage bill ! 
What I found interesting was that there seems to be no obvious barometer of ability versus compensation.
Look at Declan Rice languishing towards the bottom on 60k per week against the aged Ings on £125k per week. Or even our second choice goalkeeper being the joint third highest paid player in the club.
Just imagine the fire sale we would have had to do, if the unthinkable happened and we got relegated. There would be no way we could have serviced such a large wage bill in the Championship.
Annual salary Weekly salary
Lucas Paqueta £7,800,000 £150,000
Danny Ings £6,500,000 £125,000
Alphonse Areola £6,240,000 £120,000
Kurt Zouma £6,240,000 £120,000
Emerson Palmieri £4,940,000 £95,000
Gianluca Scamacca £4,680,000 £90,000
Michail Antonio £4,420,000 £85,000
Thilo Kehrer £4,160,000 £80,000
Manuel Lanzini £3,640,000 £70,000
Angelo Ogbonna £3,640,000 £70,000
Pablo Fornals £3,500,000 £67,308
Tomas Soucek £3,500,000 £67,308
Maxwel Cornet £3,380,000 £65,000
Lukasz Fabianski £3,380,000 £65,000
Jared Bowen £3,120,000 £60,000
Declan Rice £3,120,000 £60,000
Saïd Benrahma £2,860,000 £55,000
Nayef Aguerd £2,600,000 £50,000
Aaron Cresswell £2,600,000 £50,000
Vladimir Coufal £1,820,000 £35,000
Flynn Downes £1,300,000 £25,000
Ben Johnson £1,040,000 £20,000
We pay nowhere near the wages of the top teams. Declan Rice was offered 200 k a week by the way but turned it down.