David de Gea Paul Pogba Alexis Sanchez splitGetty/Goal composite

Alexis or Pogba, De Gea or Lukaku? Ranking Manchester United’s best-paid players

Manchester United caused a real stir in January when snapping up from Alexis Sanchez from Arsenal. Far beyond the Chilean being recruited from a Premier League rival midway through the season, the biggest bone of contention appeared to be his British-record salary of £350,000 per week.

Such is the fascination in the money being spent by football clubs in the modern era, supporters have taken an increased interest in players' wages as well as the outlays made to selling clubs in the transfer market.

And United have led the way in splashing out on playing contracts over the course of the Premier League era, signing themselves up to the five biggest deals in English history over the last five years, most recently with Sanchez.

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But who gets what in the current United squad? Below,  Goal  goes through the Old Trafford pay-grades, listing the estimated weekly salary of the top-ranked Red Devils in terms of salary.