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Article: Football: I'll need more than pounds 30,000 a week to play at Old Trafford; FRENCH FANCY: WORLD CUP WINNER FABIEN BARTHEZ WANTS MORE CASH OR HE WON'T BE UNITED'S NEW SCHMIECHEL.(Sport)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- May 18, 2000
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FRENCH World Cup winner Fabien Barthez has snubbed a proposed pounds 10million move to Manchester United.
He wants more money than the Premiership champions were prepared to offer and has told them to think again.
The Monaco keeper laughed off reports that he would settle for a pounds 30,000-a-week deal to end Sir Alex Ferguson's hunt for a keeper of the legendary Peter Schmiechel's status.
He has told friends he would still like to move to United - but only if he becomes one of their top earners.
Club chairman Martin Edwards had hoped to ...