Manchester United offer Thiago stunning â‚7.2m-a- year contract

Manchester United will
triple Thiago's salary to
€140,000-a-week if the
midfielder completes his
move from Barcelona this
summer.
Goal reported on
Thursday that the 22-
year-old is set for talks with Camp Nou
officials where he will confirm his intention to
leave the club after agreeing terms in principle
with United.
Sources have said that United are confident of
completing a €18 million deal for the
midfielder despite late interest from Bayern
Munich and Barcelona's attempts to keep
Thiago at the club after chairman Sandro
Rosell met with his father Mazinho last week.
Thiago is on his post-season break and
Barcelona officials are said to have given up
hope of convincing the midfielder to stay after
he raised doubts over forthcoming first-team
opportunities at Camp Nou ahead of next
summer's World Cup.
His current contract runs until 2015 but his
exit clause plummeted from €90 million to
€18m after he failed to participate for a
stipulated amount of minutes in the 2012-13
season.
Speaking in February, the midfielder
confirmed he wanted "to get as many minutes
as I can" and was disappointed to be a
peripheral figure in Barca's midfield behind
the likes of Xavi, Andres Iniesta and Cesc
Fabregas.
However, the buy-out clause is due to return
to €90m on August 1 if a deal for him to leave
is not completed by then.
The €7.2m wage package prepared by United
would see the midfielder's wages tower over
those earned by the likes of Phil Jones, Danny
Welbeck and Shinji Kagawa, who all earn
slightly above €81,000-a-week.
As such, United are keen to push through a
cut-price deal for the 22-year-old in the
coming weeks, with David Moyes set to
officially begin his tenure at Old Trafford on
Monday ahead of the first-team squad
reporting back for training at Carrington two
days later on July 3.

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