No professional player likes sitting on the bench but in the modern game footballers can get huge wages without taking to the pitch very often at all.
In the Premier League this is especially true given the salaries afforded to stars in a division where clubs earn big money thanks to massive deals from broadcast rights.
There are no players currently in the same ball park as Winston Bogarde, the Dutch international who ran out his four-year £40,000-a-week contract at Chelsea playing just 11 times from 2000 to 2004.
But The Sportsman has worked out every Premier League team’s highest paid player per minute this season.
They have deducted weeks a player has been injured for, then divided their collective earnings during the course of the campaign by the minutes they’ve played.
Meanwhile, those stars who have left clubs in January have also seen their subsequent weekly wages taken off their totals too.
So, which Premier League star at every side is getting the most money for the least amount of effort? Find out below.
Arsenal – Carl Jenkinson – £23,226 per minute played
(Earns £45,000 a week, played 31 minutes in the Premier League)
Bournemouth – Jermain Defoe, £98,759 per minute played
(Earnt £103,462 a week, played 22 minutes in the Premier League)
Brighton & Hove Albion – Florin Andone, £1,948 per minute played
(Earns £40,000 a week, played 534 minutes in the Premier League)
Burnley – Ben Gibson, £16,508 per minute played
(Earns £40,000 a week, played 63 minutes in the Premier League)
Cardiff City – Loic Damour, £11,785 per minute played
(Earns £9,519 a week, played 21 minutes in the Premier League)
Chelsea – Gary Cahill, £123,810 per minute played
(Earns £100,000 a week, played 21 minutes in the Premier League)
Crystal Palace – Pape Souare, £630,000 per minute played
(Earns £30,000 a week, played 1 minute in the Premier League)
Everton – Phil Jagielka, £16,667 per minute played
(Earns £50,000 a week, played 54 minutes in the Premier League)
Fulham – Fabri, £6,500 per minute played
(Earns £45,000 a week, played 180 minutes in the Premier League)
Huddersfield Town – Colin Quaner, £9,081 per minute played
(Earns £16,000 a week, played 37 minutes in the Premier League)
Leicester City – Adrien Silva, £22,727 per minute played
(Earnt £80,000 a week, played 88 minutes in the Premier League)
Liverpool – Daniel Sturridge, £12,381 per minute played
(Earns £130,000 a week, played 273 minutes in the Premier League)
Manchester City – Kevin De Bruyne, £6,530 per minute played
(Earns £350,000 a week, played 536 minutes in the Premier League)
Manchester United – Alexis Sanchez, £10,813 per minute played
(Earns £350,000 a week, played 615 minutes in the Premier League)
Newcastle United – Yoshinori Muto £2,560 per minute played
(Earns £54,000 a week, played 615 minutes in the Premier League)
Southampton – Sam Gallagher, £50,000 per minute played
(Earns £40,000 a week, played 8 minutes in the Premier League)
Tottenham Hotspur – Georges-Kevin Nkoudou, £218,750 per minute played
(Earnt £35,000 a week, played 4 minutes in the Premier League)
Watford – Miguel Britos, £50,000 per minute played
(Earns £25,000 a week, played 13 minutes in the Premier League)
West Ham United – Lucas Perez, £5,376 per minute played
(Earns £80,000 a week, played 372 minutes in the Premier League)
Wolverhampton Wanderers – Leander Dendoncker, £1,949 per minute played
(Earns £37,923 a week, played 506 minutes in the Premier League)