Manchester United player contracts: Club hoping to tie stars to new deals following Jose Mourinho sacking
The likes of Juan Mata, Ander Herrera and Ashley Young have deals expiring in 2019, while De Gea and Rashford don’t have long left on their current deals either
Manchester United are confident the club’s biggest players will sign new deals now former manager Jose Mourinho has departed.
There are a number of stars stalling on committing to new deals, while others have contracts expiring next summer.
The likes of Juan Mata, Ander Herrera and Ashley Young have deals that expire next summer, while Marcus Rashford and Eric Bailly are out of contract in 2020. Paul Pogba will have two years remaining by the end of the season.
Negotiations with the players appeared to be stalling due to Mourinho’s numerous rifts, notably with Pogba and Shaw.
United recently triggered an option in goalkeeper David De Gea’s contract to extend it by another season, meaning he is tied to Old Trafford until 2020 as he would have been free to talk to foreign clubs considering his original deal expired in 2019.
The club did the same with Anthony Martial’s deal, though his agent is not optimistic about agreeing a new deal. “They’ve already made several offers that do not meet our expectations. We are far from an agreement for the time being,” Philippe Lamboley said.
Man United players contracts
Summer 2019
Ander Herrera
Juan Mata
Antonio Valencia*
Phil Jones*
Matteo Darmian*
James Wilsom*
Andreas Pereira*
Ashley Young
Summer 2020
Anthony Martial
David de Gea
Dean Henderson*
Marcus Rashford*
Eric Bailly*
Timothy Fosu-Mensah*
Cameron Borthwick-Jackson*
Nemanja Matic*
Marouane Fellaini*
Lee Grant
Demetri Mitchell*
Summer 2021
Jesse Lingard*
Paul Pogba*
Victor Lindelof*
Joel Pereira*
Sergio Romero*
Scott McTominay*
Marcos Rojo*
Summer 2022
Romelu Lukaku*
Alexis Sanchez*
Chris Smalling*
Summer 2023
Fred*
Diogo Dalot*
Luke Shaw*
*Option of an additional year.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has replaced Mourinho and the club legend will be with them until May 2019 at which point he will return to Molde.
The 45-year-old scored 126 goals in 366 appearances for United between 1996 and 2007 and in 2008 became the club’s reserve-team manager, before taking the managerial role at Molde in Norway.
