United vice-chairman: cream of the crop wages will still rise

The salaries of the superstar players are set to continue their inexorable rise but there are already signs of an end to wage inflation for the rank and file below them, according to Manchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward.

Woodward told the club’s investors that the effects of UEFA’s financial fair play rules, and new regulations brought in this season by the Premier League, were bringing pressure to bear on salaries.