Manchester United to impose ‘Ronaldo rule’ to control wage bill and jealousy among players

According to widespread reports in the English media, Manchester United have unanimously decided to introduce a ‘Ronaldo rule’ to ensure that nobody in the team is paid significantly more than their team-mates and hence jealousy doesn’t arrive within the squad.

Under this new rule in order to set everything straight, United players’ salaries will be capped at £200,000 pounds a week or around 13 Million Euros a year. And this applies to players who are still on contracts which is more than the allotted figure and hence to solve that situation, those players would be offered a new contract.

The decision came into existence after club legend Cristiano Ronaldo who was reportedly earning around an astronomical amount £500,000 a week. He terminated his contract with the club recently after causing controversy behind the scenes due to an interview with Piers Morgan which was released just before the World Cup.

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Hence after this saga, the current chief executive Richard Arnold, director of football John Murtough and manager Erik ten Hag wanted to avoid such a contrast that could harm the team’s result only due to a money problem.

David De Gea who currently earns about £375,000 a week, and his contract will expire at the end of the season, but now he will have to accept this new rule and take a wage cut in order to remain at the club. The Red Devils’ most recent annual wage bill was at an astonishing amount which was around £228m and this is the biggest in the Premier League.

But now that this rule has been imposed, it would surely help them not only at a financial level but also at a sporting level cause it would enable much more unity in the roster.