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'Under the new scheme - which has been written into each of the first-teamers' contracts - players have to appear in EVERY ROUND of the FA Cup to hit the jackpot.

If anyone returned from a long-term injury and played in the final alone, they would pocket around £30,000.

In 1999 each senior star picked up nearly £300,000 for their Premiership, FA Cup and Champions League triumphs.

Keeper Peter Schmeichel, an ever-present, struck the biggest bonanza by collecting £320,000.

This season a first-team regular will bag £180,000 if they snatch the Premiership title back off Arsenal. But the biggest pot of gold will come should they dump Hungarian minnows Zalaegerszeg next week and go all the way to lift the European Cup.

Each player is looking at a £200,000 bonus if they lift Europe's top prize - with the added incentive that the final is on home soil.

An Old Trafford insider revealed: "The Champions League is obviously courted by everyone at the club.

"But United attach great significance to all the trophies and the bonuses reflect that this year."