Manchester United will exhaust every option to sign Jadon Sancho this summer before they turn to alternative targets. Gareth Bale has been mooted as an alternative to Sancho, should United fail in their bid to land the Borussia Dortmund and England forward this summer.
Bale, exiled at Real Madrid, is open to a move to United, to escape his Bernabeu nightmare, although he is said to favour a permanent move, rather than a loan.
But with the Wales star on £600,000-a-week, United would have to pay half of Bale's wages, just to take him on loan, with the Red Devils not interested in a permanent deal.
Given United's pursuit of Sancho has stalled over the 20-year-old's wage demands – believed to be just shy of £300,000-a-week – taking on Bale,
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