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Published 08:12 10 Aug 2018 BST
Updated 08:32 10 Aug 2018 BST
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'Alexis Sánchez’s contract – £391,000 a week with an extra £75,000 for every game he plays and an annual £1.1m signing-on fee – is another indication of how far United are willing to go when a category-A player is available.'That works out at around £490,000 per week for Sanchez, provided he plays regularly, and it is why Mino Raiola, Pogba's agent, was happily linking the French midfielder to Barcelona this summer. Simply put, Sanchez' arrival as top earner ruffled feathers and knocked United's pay structures out of whack. The club now look set to rein in that lavish spending and Mourinho has been told to work with what he has got. That 'what he's got' includes Phil Jones, Marcos Rojo, Luke Shaw and Matteo Darmian are just some of the reasons the Portuguese is looking less than chipper as he heads into the league's opening weekend.
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