No Man Utd player is ever bigger than the manager. That was a rule Sir Alex Ferguson stuck by during his time at Old Trafford - and demanded the club did too.
Even when Wayne Rooney was elevated to a mammoth £250,000-per-week salary in 2010, Fergie's was doubled to keep him atop the club's wage bill. "I told them I did not think it fair that Rooney should earn twice what I made," Ferguson revealed in a book in 2015. "[United co-chairman] Joel Glazer said: 'I totally agree but what should we do?' It was simple.
We just agreed no player should be paid more than me." But it seems Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has not been afforded the same luxury.
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