Nan bread
United winger gets serious dough
21 February 2012
MANCHESTER UNITED are to open
talks with Nani over a megabucks new four-year deal — worth a whopping £130,000
a week. The champions are ready to spend
after raking in a record £175million profit in six months.
United also cut their debts in
the second half of last year with the money owed to the Glazer family, under
the terms of their takeover, reduced from £508m to £439m.
Portuguese winger Nani, 24, has
two years to run on his current contract, worth £90,000 a week. He is perfectly happy at Old
Trafford — despite interest from Juventus and AC Milan — and there are no
problems over the terms of his offer.
The £18m buy from Sporting Lisbon
in 2007 took time to find his feet in England but was last term voted United's
players' player of the year.
Now United will rocket him into
the same pay bracket as their highest earners.SunSport revealed in November
that the Old Trafford paymasters pencilled in talks for early this year.
Those discussions are set to
begin over the next week to extend Nani's stay until 2016. Boss Alex Ferguson is convinced
Nani can develop into a similar player to Cristiano Ronaldo and become a Reds
legend.
The mercurial star began this
season in superb form and returned to the side for last week's Europa League
win in Ajax after being out for nearly a month with a foot injury.
United released figures for the
last six months of 2011 which show they will still be kings of Manchester off
the pitch... even if their neighbours and Premier League leaders City take
their title.
The £175m profit is £18.5m up on
the same period in 2010, an increase of almost 12 per cent.
This season's Champions League
flop means figures for the next six months are likely to be less impressive.
And while United remain England's
richest club, they fell further behind Spanish giants Real Madrid and Barcelona
in football's money league.
Their match-day revenue was up
from £52.4m to £54.5m. Media increased from £53.7m to
£60.9m and commercial revenue from £50.4m to £58.6m.
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