Roy Keane's Old Trafford contracts show year-by-year wages rising from £950,000 in January 2000 to £2.75m for July 2000–June 2003, and later £3.5m per year. The paperwork records a £1m signing-on fee for each year of his contract and a peak basic wage of £3.5m. Adjusted for inflation, a £3.5m salary plus £1m signing fee would be worth about £8.3m before tax today, roughly £160,000 per week. Those figures contrasted sharply with Premier League peers at the time and illustrate how player salaries have grown since the early 2000s.
"You signed a contract in [January] 2000 for 950,000 a year, which is 20 grand a week," Neville said, as he examined the contracts, before adding that Keane's salary was bumped to 2.75 million per year for the period July 2000 to June 2003. Keane's papers also revealed he earned a 1 million 'signing-on fee' for each year of his Man United contract, and at one point earned 3.5 million per year in basic wages.
Roy Keane on punditry duty (Image credit: Getty Images) Roy Keane has revealed how much he earned whilst captain of Manchester United during the early 2000s. The former Manchester United and Republic of Ireland skipper brought his Old Trafford contracts to 'The Overlap' podcast studio where the star-studded panel pored over the smallprint. Gary Neville, Jamie Carragher, Ian Wright and Jill Scott expressed their surprise at the figures involved as Keane shared the paperwork.
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