Manchester United’s pay structure needs reboot after wasted millions

Jim Ratcliffe and his lieutenants must address the club’s tale of bloated wages that can be traced across the last decade.

Manchester United's Casemiro.

Marcus Rashford, Casemiro, Jadon Sancho and Raphaël Varane would be the poster boys in any Jim Ratcliffe white paper examining how Manchester United’s flatlining squad could be moved to a more modest or even performance-related pay structure.

In the elite football world of hyper-inflated salaries performance-related pay is a pipe-dream but imagine if the United footballer’s lucrative base rate salary was slashed and generous incentives predicated on, for instance, goal ratio and minutes played, were built in.