United considering performance-related pay

Manchester United chief executive David Gill has revealed the club will look to introduce more performance-related contracts in the future.

Gill says deals offered to new or younger players would see wages go down if they failed to reach, for example, the Champions League group stages.

“Getting to the Champions League group stage is critical, and it is important that players contribute to that element,” he said.

“Part of their remuneration would be dependant on them getting into the Champions League. If we don’t get in, our income goes down. That would be mitigated by the players’ wages going down.”

He told the UK's Independent: “It would be good if we could get 25% (of a contract) based on that second element. For the young players, we need to look at them having appearance-based money but they would still get a very nice basic.”