14 Premier League sides make it into the top 25 highest paying clubs in the world in terms of annual wages.Playing in the world’s richest league evidently has its issues in terms of outgoing salaries, in that bigger payouts are required to get the best players – although there are major issues surrounding that idea when present with this list.There are very few Sunderland players who can claim they worked hard enough to earn their wages this season.With the exception of Jermain Defoe, the team was poor throughout, so you can’t exactly say wasting their cash on a load of underperforming first-team stars was a good use of their money.