Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho must break the bank to sign £155million Antoine Griezmann
* Manchester United are expected to target Antoine Griezmann this summer
* United will have to make Griezmann the best paid player in the Premier League
* The Frenchman is attracted by the interest but would cost around £300k a week
* The price could total £155m over the course of a five-year deal for the striker
Manchester United will have to make Antoine Griezmann the Premier League's best-paid player if they are serious about signing him this summer.
The France striker is Jose Mourinho's top transfer target and will put his talents on display once again when his formidable Atletico Madrid side face city rivals Real in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final.
Sportsmail has learned that Griezmann is attracted by United's interest but also that his terms would cost the English club just shy of £300,000 a week.
Including transfer fees, the price tag for Griezmann would be almost £155m in total over the course of the five-year deal which is preferred by the 26-year-old.
With Griezmann being asked to leave the perennial Champions League contenders for a club not yet guaranteed to even be in the competition next season, he has set the financial bar high by way of potential compensation.
The 350,000 Euros a week that he would want translates to £295,000 at current exchange rates — a sum that would edge him ahead of the Premier League's top earners, Paul Pogba and Wayne Rooney.
Manchester United are set to target Atletico Madrid striker Antoine Griezmann this summer. United will have to make Griezmann the league's best-paid player if they want to sign him. Including transfer fees, the price tag for Griezmann could be almost £155million in total
That outlay works out at a commitment of about £77m over five years and would be piled on top of a transfer fee that would have to exceed the £76m (90m Euros) currently acting as a buy-out clause in Griezmann's contract in Spain.
He is earning half this weekly amount in Spain but knows that his stock may never be higher. United will not balk at the figures, having committed a similar amount to last summer's signing of Pogba from Juventus.
United also expect Rooney to leave this summer - in all likelihood to China - and that will immediately free them of a £290,000-a-week commitment to a contract that is not due to expire until the summer of 2018.
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mending fokus lolos ke UCL dulu, kalo dah lolos UCL musim depan, jangankan Griezmann, pemain yg lain juga ikut tertarik ke United. tapi kalo jadi rekrut Griezmann harus jual Rooney nih, buat mengurangi biaya transfer & alokasi gajinya bisa buat Griezmann.