Who's facing financial oblivion if they go down?

The battle to avoid relegation to the Championship (and swerve an immediate £50million hit) is a three-way affair. 

Everton and Burnley take on Crystal Palace and Aston Villa respectively on Thursday night, before Sunday's final day when Leeds can have their say too. 

Sportsmail looks at Leeds, Everton and Burnley and examines how well-equipped they are to cope with the drop — and avoid financial Armageddon...  

EVERTON

Heading in a very dangerous direction with fat salaries and a £450million new stadium on the way.

Goodison regulars have been saying for years that following Everton should come with a health warning but never before has the risk been as grave.

How not to run a football club? The blue half of Merseyside are writing the book, and the final chapter may be the grimmest of the lot.

Getting to this stage — where an unthinkable relegation is perilously close to becoming reality — has not come cheap. In 2020-21, they lost £120.9m — that’s £331,232.88 every day. The year before it was £140m. The year before that £111.8m. And for what? A hotch-potch, fragile squad that Frank Lampard is trying to squeeze over the finish line to safety.

In January, £28m was splurged on full backs Nathan Patterson and Vitalii Mykolenko. And yet Seamus Coleman, signed for £60,000 from Sligo Rovers by David Moyes in 2009, continues to get a game every week.

Sound bizarre? It gets better. At the time, the £28m paid to Arsenal for Alex Iwobi seemed about £20m too much.

Insiders say the former Gunner’s weekly salary would make you weep. In fairness to Iwobi, who may well play a key role in keeping the Toffees up, he is far from the only one that applies to.

What of the curious case of Anwar El Ghazi?

In January, after losing Lucas Digne