After going through the best paid holding midfielders last week, this post will be looking at central midfield players.

This list doesn’t include certain names, such as Kevin De Bruyne, mainly due to the fact that they can be better described as attacking midfielders, which will be the subject of another article next week.

Central midfielders can be playmakers, but they can also be destroyers, depending on what system they are deployed in. Surprisingly, there isn’t a player who fits this category who earns above £200,000 a week.

Press the next page as we count down the highest earning central midfield players in the Premier League (based on data from Capology.com).