Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag has confirmed the club have extended the contracts of Victor Lindelof, Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Hannibal Mejbri.
The trio were approaching the final six months of their deals but United triggered the one-year option in each contract to tie all of them to the club until 2025. The Manchester Evening News reported the contracts were due to be extended back in October.
The contracts of Raphael Varane and Anthony Martial have not been extended and the latter is expected to be released in the summer if he is not sold in the January transfer window.
Martial, 28, has only scored 18 goals for United in the last three-and-a-half years and he has spent the last three weeks on the sidelines as he has been unwell.
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Varane, 30, has also been injury-prone during his two-and-a-half years with United and the club do not want him to remain on the same salary of around £375,000-a-week next season.
The former Real Madrid defender has started in four of the last five United games but is now free to negotiate a pre-contract agreement with overseas clubs this month.
Varane has missed seven games this season through five different cases of injury and illness. Overall, he has been an enforced absence for 38 United games out of a possible 138.
“We are talking with Rapha Varane, with Anthony Martial, and we triggered the options on Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Victor Lindelof and Hannibal,” Ten Hag said.
The Dutchman refused to amplify on the discussions with the French duo: “I think that is an internal discussion between the club and the player.”
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