Aaron Wan-Bissaka: Man Utd reach agreement with Crystal Palace to sign defender
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Manchester United have reached an agreement with Crystal Palace to sign right-back Aaron Wan-Bissaka.
The deal is worth £50m and the 21-year-old England Under-21 international is set to travel for a medical imminently before going on holiday.
United have offered Wan-Bissaka a long-term contract and wages of up to £80,000 a week.
He is on £10,000 a week at Selhurst Park, the lowest-paid player in Palace's first-team squad.
Wan-Bissaka, who has been on international duty this month at the European Under-21 Championship, joined Crystal Palace academy when he was 11 and made his first-team debut in 2018.
United would pay £45m up front, which would make him the Old Trafford club's fifth-biggest signing, behind Paul Pogba, Romelu Lukaku, Angel di Maria and Fred.
A sticking point in negotiations was the 25% sell-on clause that United inserted into Wilfried Zaha's contract when they sold the winger back to Palace for £6m in February 2015.
The Eagles wanted the clause removed or reduced, but United eventually refused - based on the low fee they received four years ago - and it will remain in place.
If the deal is completed, Wan-Bissaka will be United's second summer arrival, after 21-year-old Wales winger Daniel James joined from Swansea for £15m earlier in June.
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To quote Richard Keys, "the game's gone mad".
Get some out..........you know the ones.
Anyway, the Glazers have teken over £1 bn out of Man Utd since they joined, so I'd rather the money went to Palace than to their "personal estate planning"
You couldn't make it up.
"....he would never get into the squad of a top 6 team. And he hasn't...."
Didn't United finish in the top 6 last season?
Why the need to ridicule Roy Hodgson's speech impediment in your post?
Does it make you feel important?
Pogba is a world cup winner because he just happened to be playing on the best team. He was ok in that tournament. Wouldn't say he was one of the standout French players. There were many players in Russia who looked better than Pogba who didn't go home with a winner's medal.