Manchester United are ready to make David de Gea the best paid player in the Premier League, The Sunday Times reports. The Old Trafford outfit will table an offer with a basic pay package of £90m over five years. The deal will see De Gea’s wages overtake that of team-mates, Paul Pogba and Alexis Sanchez, as well as Arsenal playmaker Mesut Ozil. United executive chairman, Ed Woodward, has made sorting De Gea’s future top priority, as he works to tie down deals for a number of United’s first-team squad. The Spaniard’s deal runs until the end of the 2019/2020 season. De Gea, who has spent eight years at the club, has been named United’s player of the year in four of the last five seasons.

Manchester United are said to be facing “massive problems” in agreeing new deals with David de Gea, Anthony Martial and Alexis Sanchez, the UK Mirror reports. Manager Jose Mourinho is desperate for De Gea and Martial to sign contract extensions at Old Trafford and the duo have been locked in talks with club chiefs for several months. But United are finding it difficult to get the deals over the line. It is now understood that United’s prospects were being hampered, by agents using Sanchez’s salary as a guide in negotiations. The Red Devils signed Sanchez from Arsenal last January and handed the Chilean a huge salary of over £400,000-a-week. It is claimed Sanchez’s teammates at Old Trafford, are now trying to use this to their advantage, with De Gea said to be eyeing £300,000-a-week terms in a new deal. Martial, who has netted five goals in his last five matches, has already rejected terms on a new deal and is another player who is said to be looking for some kind of p...