I've written https://github.com/mozilla/foundation.mozilla.org/blob/master/network-api/networkapi/wagtailcustomization/redirects/middleware.py as a wrapper around wagtail.contrib.redirects, so that setting a redirect for /somepage in the CMS will kick in for any /en/somepage, /fr/somepage, etc. etc, but it might be worth moving that into the wagtail-modeltranslation repo instead, with a docs update that explains to use 'wagtail_modeltranslation.middleware.RedirectMiddleware' rather than 'wagtail.contrib.redirects.middleware.RedirectMiddleware' in the MIDDLEWARE = [...] section of the Django settings.
If that sounds like a good idea, I can form a PR with the relevant code and docs changes.