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Richards earns new City deal

Last updated at 22:52pm on 09.10.07

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Micah Richards intends to sign a five-year deal at Manchester City this month.

The England defender is still only 19 but City have been forced to increase his pay from £10,000 to about £40,000 a week — on a par with the club's top earners — to keep rivals at bay.

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Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal all covet the teenager but manager Sven Goran Eriksson insisted on Richards being handed a pay rise when he took charge of City in the summer.


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Well he is good and Arsenal needs another defender. Oh and he's English.

- Richard Goh, Klang, Malaysia, 10/10/2007 03:01
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