Obviously, the majority highest earners in the Premier League are from the top six clubs because the League has a viable structure and huge sponsorship deals that makes their players earn some insane weekly wages even without considering what these players have to offer their clubsides.

This is why other clubs playing in other leagues find it extremely difficult to match the Premier League clubs in terms of payment of salaries.
We know that Spurs’ Gareth Bale is the highest paid player in the league, City’s Kevin De Bruyne happens to be the best paid midfielder while Manchester United’s David De Gea is the highest earner of all the goaltenders in the league. But, what about the defenders?
Let’s find out which defender(s) earns the highest in the Premier League.

Yerry Mina (£120,000) – Everton

The Colombian centreback joined the Toffees from Barcelona in 2018 in a deal worth €30 million. Since then, he’s become a household name in the Premier League.

Even in the ongoing season, Mina has steered the ship of the defense for the Carlo Ancelotti’s Everton side.
Alongside Mina, Manchester United’s duo of Luke Shaw and Victor Lindelöf as well as Manchester City’s Aymeric Laporte also pockets a sum of £120,000 pounds per-week. Not a meagre amount!

One would understand why Arsenal fans mostly come hard on Luiz whenever he puts up amateurish displays. It’s simply because of his huge weekly wages; a player cannot be earning an enormous wage and be contributing less to the team – especially a team like Arsenal that’s not known to be paying huge wages.

At Chelsea, the Brazilian defender was earning £117,612. But at Arsenal, an addition of £8,061 pounds have been added. Which implicate that the club would rely on his wealth of experience to help add balance to every defensive problem they may have.
By and large, the 33 year-old hasn’t been awful in his two years spell at Arsenal but he needs to be doing more – Much is expected from whom much is given.

Cesar Azpilicueta (£145,000) – Chelsea

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