WAGE BILL THE TRUE COST OF MANCHESTER UNITED’S TITLE WIN

Manchester United may still be celebrating their dominant title win but the club’s mammoth ￡200 million wage bill has revealed the true, astronomical cost of regaining the Premier League – and seen them leapfrog neighbours Manchester City as the country’s biggest salary spenders.The Old Trafford outfit have announced a huge 25 per cent leap in wage payments – totalling ￡44.9m in the third quarter before tax – largely thanks to new signings Robin van Persie and Shinji Kagawa, renegotiated contracts for other squad players and new positions within the club’s commercial operation.United’s relative third-quarter wage costs totalled just below ￡34m before tax in last year’s equivalent results, with the club’s annual bill coming to ￡160m.
The announcement came as the club recorded three-month turnover of ￡91.7m on the New York stock exchange earlier this week, as well as a 52.flat wire for brush2% increase in sponsorship revenue following a number of high-profile commercial deals in the Far East.The vast salaries at the club are best typified by the ￡250k-a-week deals currently paid to Van Persie and Wayne Rooney,Tube Badge Holder Lanyard making the forward pair Britain’s top-earning footballers, with their deals alone costing United ￡24m per year.The Premier League champions are wary of controlling their growing wage costs and are set to reduce their top-line spending by offering Wayne Rooney a reduced deal this summer, as website exclusively revealed on Thursday.Banner Pen With Pull-out Banner Wrapped Around An Interior Roller
City’s last annual financial results, released in January, showed that the Etihad Stadium outfit had paid ￡174m in the previous year, totalling ￡201m after tax. However, The Sweeper understands that the second-placed Premier League side are actively looking to cut their salary expenditure, with the departures of Nigel de Jong, Emmanuel Adebayor and Mario Balotelli all contributing to the club’s wage restructure.David Moyes has said that he will wait to see how Everton’s season ends before he commits himself to negotiations about extending his contract.But The Sweeper understands that the Scot is leaning towards staying at Goodison Park, regardless of how the Merseysiders finish the campaign.