Manchester United’s wage structure needs to be restarted after millions wasted

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Marcus Rashford, Casemiro, Jadon Sancho and Raphaël Varane would be the poster boys in any whitepaper from Sir Jim Ratcliffe exploring how to move Manchester United's flatlining squad towards a more modest or even performance-related pay structure.

In the elite football world of hyper-inflated salaries, performance-related rewards are an illusion, but imagine if the United footballer's lucrative base salary were reduced and generous incentives built in, based on things like goal ratio and minutes played.

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