With only ten rounds of fixtures left in this year’s Premier League campaign, we are now getting to a stage where we have a much clearer idea of the teams that could go down, and those who might just stay to fight in the top-flight for another season.

David Moyes’ Sunderland have one win in ten – including seven losses in this time – and find themselves bottom of the table.

Three points ahead of them are Middlesbrough, and despite making a good start in this division following promotion last season, they are one of the teams now favourites to make a return to the Championship.

Hull City complete the bottom three and had practically been written off before the season even began, Marco Silva’s men have two points more than Boro.

Above the relegation zone, realistically, all of AFC Bournemouth, Burnley, Crystal Palace, Leicester City, Swansea and Watford are also clubs flirting with the danger zone as they are within six or less points of the bottom three sides.

All of these aforementioned clubs will be wanting to keep hold of their star players come the end of the season, but here are five players at a relegation threatened club who Shoot! think could be on the move this summer…

Jordan Pickford

Although Sunderland currently find themselves rock-bottom of the Premier League, one of the standout players of their campaign so far has been young goalkeeper Jordan Pickford.

The English shot-stopper is in fine form and has performed outstandingly so far this season, despite the rut that The Black Cats currently find themselves in.

Following Vito Mannone’s injury at the start of the season, Pickford has now established himself as number one at the Stadium of Light and is now one of the first names on the teamsheet for David Moyes.

The 23-year-old has received two call-ups for the senior England squad, but is yet to make his debut for the national side.

He should be in line for a big money move come the end of the season and is currently valued at around the £5m mark.

But the goalkeeper could fetch almost double that, even if his side fails to survive in the Premier League come the end of the current season.

Andros Townsend

After falling out of favour at Tottenham and then really failing to make an impact at Newcastle United, the talk around Andros Townsend and his capabilities of playing at the top level, both at club and international level, has faded somewhat.

The midfielder had hoped that a switch back to London would solve his problems, but after having limited opportunities under former Crystal Palace boss Alan Pardew and current boss Sam Allardyce, the 25-year-old is still struggling to rediscover his previous form.

However, with The Eagles just one point above the relegation zone, Townsend could well be on the move once again.

The former Spurs player is well used to moving, having been loaned out to nine different clubs before establishing himself as a first-team regular in the 2013-14 season.

There are no doubts about his talent, given the opportunity and reportedly he came close to re-joining Rafa Benitez’s Magpies back in January.

This could be a likely destination should Newcastle achieve promotion back to the top-flight in May and Palace make the drop down to the Championship.

Wilfried Zaha

Wilfried Zaha has long been touted as a future star and many have seen great potential in the youngster, including Sir Alex Ferguson after he signed the winger in 2013 in what was his final season at Old Trafford.

However, the 24-year-old soon fell out of favour after being cast aside by David Moyes and his time spent at Manchester United proved to be somewhat of a disaster. Following loan moves to Cardiff City and Crystal Palace, Zaha secured a permanent move to his former club, and is once again back to doing what he does best – tormenting defences, scoring and creating goals.

The Ivorian has scored on five occasions and assisted eight times in 24 appearances this season and has his whole future ahead of him.

Palace are one of the clubs in the relegation battle this season and Sam Allardyce will be keen to steer his side away from the bottom of the table.

However, should he not manage to do so, Zaha will be one player who will attract a lot of interest – with both Everton and Tottenham already said to be interested in the winger.

Jermain Defoe

At 34 years of age, many fans would look past Jermain Defoe when it comes to attacking talent but, barring Tottenham Hotspur’s Harry Kane, Sunderland’s in-form striker is the highest scoring English international in the race for this season’s Golden Boot award.

The former Spurs forward has 14 goals in 27 appearances this season, almost matching the 15 that he netted in 2015-16 and taking him over the milestone of 150 Premier League goals (157).

In fact; only Alan Shearer, Wayne Rooney, Andy Cole, Frank Lampard, Thierry Henry and Robbie Fowler have scored more than The Black Cats striker and he is one of only eight players who have passed this milestone since the Premier League started in 1992-93.

Sunderland are in last place and, unless they can pull off another great escape, they look fairly certain to be playing Championship football next season.

Whether they manage to stay up or not, they will have a fight on their hands to keep what is arguably their biggest asset with Burnley, Swansea City and Watford all interested, and with West Ham United already having two bids rejected back in January.

Gylfi Sigurdsson 

Swansea City have been slowly lifting themselves outside of the bottom three and currently sit 16th in the table on 27 points.

Should they get drawn back into the relegation battle before the end of the season, one player that would most likely not make the move down to the second-tier of English football is Icelandic international Gylfi Sigurdsson.

Whilst he does have experience of playing in this division with Reading, the 27-year-old possesses far too much quality not to be playing in the Premier League.

Like Sunderland with Defoe, whether Swansea stay up or go down may be irrelevant as to whether the midfield maestro stays with the Welsh outfit next season as he is already attracting the attention of bigger clubs around him.

Everton are rumoured to be interested in signing the midfielder with a £25m figure that manager Ronald Koeman is ready to offer for the player.

Sigurdsson has eight goals and 11 assists so far this season and will be wanting to prove himself at another top club after failing to make the most of his chance with Tottenham a few years ago.