Joe Hart to earn £175k a week to play for West Ham… with Man City paying him £55k a week wages to leave
England keeper's Etihad deal contains bonuses and clauses for image rights for the next TWO YEARS
JOE HART will be paid an incredible £55,000 a week by Manchester City to NOT play for them next season.
The England keeper, 30, will pocket another £120k from new loan club West Ham — taking his weekly wage to a whopping £175k.
Hart has agreed a season-long loan and becomes the Hammers’ highest-paid player.
But the City outcast’s Etihad contract contains bonuses and clauses for image rights worth the extra £55k-a-week for the next TWO YEARS.
Hart is still entitled to those lucrative extras even though he did not play a single competitive game for City last season.
He had a medical with West Ham yesterday with only minor details left to be ironed out.
Hammers boss Slaven Bilic has been chasing Hart for some time and he could make his debut in a friendly with Fulham in Austria on Thursday.
Hart may not be the last City stopper out of the door this summer — as £17m Claudio Bravo's future is again in doubt.
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City are now chasing ex-Liverpool keeper Pepe Reina and have asked Napoli about him.
Reina, 34, is likely to be up for grabs for around £4million and played 49 games for the Italians last term as they finished third in Serie A.
Bravo has yet to return to City due to his involvement in the Confederations Cup with Chile.
But the £17m gloveman already knows he has lost his No 1 spot to £34.9m signing Ederson, who arrived from Benfica last month.