David De Gea is set to finally end the uncertainty over his future by signing a new long-term contract with Manchester United once the club returns from their pre-season tour of Australia and Asia.

The deal is likely to be worth in excess of £350,000 a week and will make De Gea the highest paid goalkeeper in the world.

De Gea, 28, has been locked in a contract stand-off with United for the past year and the club have risked losing him for nothing when his existing deal expires at the end of next season amid interest from Paris St. Germain.

But United made the Spain No. 1 an improved offer in recent weeks and it is now expected that he will end the impasse by putting pen to paper on a bumper new deal.

It is likely to make him United’s best paid player after Chile striker Alexis Sanchez, whose basic £391,000 a week salary balloons to around £500,000 a week once assorted bonus clauses are factored in. It also follows the news earlier this month that Marcus Rashford had signed a heavily incentivised new four-year contract with United worth about £200,000 a week rising to over £300,000 a week with bonuses.