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Sat 07 Jul 2010Vidic agrees lucrative contract extension
MANCHESTER UNITED have ended the uncertainty surrounding Nemanja Vidic’s future by reaching agreement with the Serbia international over a lucrative contract extension. The as yet unsigned deal is expected to keep the 28-year-old at Old Trafford until 2014 and will be worth around €108,200 a week.
Vidic’s future at United has been under a cloud for several months and in June the player’s agent, Paolo Fabbri, claimed the defender would consider his options after the World Cup. Real Madrid and several Italian clubs had been linked with the commanding central defender, a €8.3 million signing from Spartak Moscow in 2006, although the feeling inside Old Trafford was he was angling to elevate Vidic to being among the highest earners at the club.
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