{"id":17439,"date":"2024-01-01T22:19:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T19:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/17439\/man-united-wont-trigger-varane\/"},"modified":"2024-01-01T22:19:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T19:19:46","slug":"man-united-wont-trigger-varane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=17439","title":{"rendered":"Man United won&#8217;t trigger Varane contract extension &#8211; source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man United won&#8217;t trigger Varane contract extension &#8211; source\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Rob Dawson, correspondent<span class=\"timestamp \">January 1, 2024, 12:06 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Manchester United have decided not to extend Rapha\u00ebl Varane&#39;s contract for another year, a source told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>This means the defender is able to negotiate with clubs outside the Premier League from January 1 and could potentially leave Old Trafford on a free transfer this summer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Varane is still seen as a key part of the team by manager Erik ten Hag, but United are reluctant to trigger a one-year option that would keep the 30-year-old on a salary of more than \u00a3300,000 a <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/week\/\"   title=\"week\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">week<\/a> until &#39;in June 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The club have not ruled out extending the former France international&#39;s stay, but negotiations around a new contract would likely focus on a performance-related deal.<\/p>\n<p>Varane&#39;s current contract will expire in June 2024. The approach is similar to that taken with former goalkeeper David De Gea last season.<\/p>\n<p>United decided not to trigger a one-year option in the goalkeeper&#39;s contract and he left the club on a free transfer last summer.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Rapha\u00ebl Varane is now free to speak with other clubs. <cite>Photo by James Baylis &#8211; AMA\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Varane and De Gea were among United&#39;s highest-paid players last season, alongside Casemiro and Jadon Sancho.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus Rashford joined them when he signed a new long-term contract in July worth around \u00a3315,000 per week.  United are set to trigger one-year extensions for Victor Lindel\u00f6f and Aaron Wan-Bissaka to keep the pair at Old Trafford until 2025. Their contracts were due to expire next summer.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Martial also has a contract until the summer, but United have decided not to activate the extension option until 2025. The 28-year-old has scored two goals in 19 matches this season but has been absent these last three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Asked before the 2-1 defeat to Nottingham Forest, Ten Hag said the Frenchman was ill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s not well, he\u2019s not available,\u201d Ten Hag said.<\/p>\n<p>United are back in action against Wigan Athletic at the DW Stadium in the FA Cup third round on January 8.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man United won&#8217;t trigger Varane contract extension &#8211; source\u060c Rob Dawson, correspondentJanuary 1, 2024, 12:06 p.m. Manchester United have decided not to extend Rapha\u00ebl Varane&#39;s contract for another year, a source told ESPN. This means the defender is able to negotiate with clubs outside the Premier League from January 1 and could potentially leave Old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[612,1739,32,811,2323,29,5235,1852],"class_list":["post-17439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-contract","tag-extension","tag-man","tag-source","tag-trigger","tag-united","tag-varane","tag-wont"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17441,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17439\/revisions\/17441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}