Aston Villa have £6m prize to play for at Tottenham on final day

Paul Lambert's men head to White Hart Lane safe from relegation. Victory in north London might mean the claret and blues end the campaign on a high, but a summer of uncertainty awaits with question marks hanging over the heads of the manager and chairman Randy Lerner.

Followers might be forgiven for looking past this fixture and pondering what might lie beyond in the summer months. Still, it is a game which will hold particular interest for the Villa Park bean counters.

Lambert's men could still finish as high as 12th or as low as 17th and in today's cash-rich game, that's a difference in prize money of £66.6m or £72.6m.

Fans, on the other hand, care more about results and once more there is a general feeling of relief the season is coming to a close.

As for players, well, it's difficult to say. Certainly midfielder Fabian Delph was non-committal when asked what this final test of the campaign represents.

"It's whatever you want to see it as really," he said. "We are going into every game to get three points and we are no different on Sunday."

Observers will perhaps ponder on that second sentence, in the wake of Wednesday night's 4-0 hammering at Manchester City.

Certainly the task which awaited Villa was a thankless one. But there was a sense of inevitability about the result which Delph appeared to touch on.

"They are obviously a lot better team than us, they have a much better calibre of player, he said.

"We gave what we had in our locker to see the game out for as long as we did, we tried to do that, we tried to prolong it.

"They are streets ahead of us, they have multi-million pound signings."

Nobody would argue with Delph's assessment that City are "streets ahead" and Wednesday's result was a big dose of football logic.

Spend hundreds of millions on a team and you should comfortably beat one compiled at a fraction of the cost and which has suffered the loss of several key players to injury, as Delph pointed out.

"We are missing vital players," he said. "Christian (Benteke) is a huge miss, he gives us everything up there. Missing Gabby was a big blow. "

Despite the general mood around the club at present, the season has not been without its moments and Delph has been involved in several, most notably scoring the winner in the 1-0 win over Chelsea in March.

At times the 22-year-old has been linked with a possible England call-up. But he insists it's all about the team.

"It's not something I think about (my own performances)," he said. "This is pure honesty now, I'm not bothered about my own personal performance.

"It's a team of 11 players and it's all about what we are like as a group and my individual performances are not something I think about.

"Maybe at the end of the season I will sit down and say I could have been better here, or I could have been better there. That's been critical on myself but I won't be sitting back thinking I've done alright because it's not about that."