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Weekly salary of 500,000 pounds! Manchester City is unwilling to meet Donaluma s maximum salary requirement, Paris may be forced to pay for subsidies

7:36am, 1 September 2025Football

On August 31, Simon Mullock, chief reporter of the British Daily Mirror, wrote an article to update the transfer between Manchester City and Paris goalkeeper Donaluma. According to him, it is not a big problem for Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City to reach an agreement on Donnarumma's transfer fee. But the Italian goalkeeper asked for a weekly salary of £500,000, which made it difficult for Manchester City to accept. This summer, Manchester City launched the buyback clause and signed youth goalkeeper Trafford, and plans to send off Brazilian goalkeeper Ederson and second-goal Ortega, who performed poorly last season. After Donaluma was abandoned by Paris Saint-Germain and placed on the shelves, Manchester City quickly made a move to contact the Italian goalkeeper and accelerated the plan to send goalkeeper Ederson away. If the latter can leave the team smoothly, Manchester City will sign Donnarumma, thus completing a successful upgrade in the goalkeeper position.

Born in 1999, Donnarumma is only 26 years old. He is from AC Milan youth training. He once set the record of the youngest starting goalkeeper in the Serie A and the record of the second youngest debut player in Milan's history. In the summer of 2021, Donnarumma represented the Italian team in the European Cup as the main goalkeeper and led the team to win the championship with his outstanding performance. He himself also won the MVP honor for the event. Also in that summer, Donnarumma joined Paris Saint-Germain as a free agent. As for why he did not continue to play in AC Milan, we have to ask why he has the nickname of Qian Duoduo.

In fact, this time Donnarumma was cleaned by Paris Saint-German. In addition to the fact that his feet were generally not in line with Enrique's tactical system, his refusal to cut salary and renew his contract was also a very important reason. So although it was one of the biggest contributors to Paris Saint-Germain's European Triple Crown, and although he would scrub his doubts that he would take off his back and kill the donkey, Paris Saint-Germain signed local goalkeeper Shevalier and issued an order to expel Donaluma.

Of course, with the strength of Donnarumma's top three goalkeepers in the world, it is no problem to find a satisfactory next home. Manchester City in the Premier League's Blue Moon Army is not inferior to Paris Saint-Germain in terms of heritage, financial resources and competitiveness. But at present, Donnarumma still cannot change his obsession with money. What is the concept of a weekly salary of 500,000 pounds? Manchester City's No. 1 star Haaland has a weekly salary of only £525,000, while Manchester City's second highest B seat is only £300,000. Looking at the entire Premier League, only Haaland and Liverpool two elders Salah and Van Dijk have received a weekly salary of £400,000.

In other words, as goalkeeper Donnarumma, he is almost the second highest salary in the Premier League, which is almost the same as Haaland. Even if he is outstanding in strength, this requirement is really absurd. Because this means that Manchester City's salary structure is in danger of collapse. So despite his great appreciation for Donnarumma, Manchester City will not meet his super high salary requirements.

In this way, the pressure came to Paris Saint-Germain. Now there are less than 2 days left before the summer window is closed. If Donnarumma cannot be sent away at the last moment, Paris Saint-Germain will not only pay his huge salary for the last year, but also face the embarrassment of the player leaving freely and not getting a penny of transfer fees. In this case, Paris Saint-Germain's only option is to pay out of its own pocket and promote transfers through wage subsidies. Otherwise, Qian Duoduo, who regards money as his life, will not leave the team.

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