Champions League qualification was supposed to help Michael Carrick land players, but the opposite is happening due to another factor. Man Utd want to sell a player, but the player’s wages are not matched anywhere else. More United NewsUnited run a contract policy of a 25% salary cut every season United aren’t in the Champions League. As soon as Carrick’s United qualified for the Champions League, the wages of every senior player at the club went up by 25%. Since they can’t sell well, they can’t buy well, and the reason they can’t sell well is that all the underperformers have had their wages raised by 25%.