Help me understand how release clauses in Germany work. If one club, say Aston Villa, pony up £66m, and he does not want to go there, he does not have to be sold. If multiple clubs agree to pay the £66m, but one club, let's say Chelsea, offer £100m, can Dortmund refuse to sell him to the club only offering the £66m? In other words, can there still be a bidding war with a release clause? If Chelsea, Bayern, RM, and City all offer the same £66m, it's his choice as to where he wants to go.
Bigger wage packet wins with him I'd guess.
First of all, it's not a Germany-specific thing as such.
Unlike in Spain, where every player contract legally has to have a buy-out clause with a certain amount, most contracts in Bundesliga don't have release clauses, and so the release clauses that exist are always a product of a specific negotiation. It's the same in PL, basically, even if it's an even less used tool there.
And then, we don't really know how each individual of these clauses work, since they're part of the negotiated contract and not public information. And so we don't really know Haaland's either, if it exists.
But yeah, basically, as the general understanding is and as it's been reported, if a club pays a certain amount within a specified timeframe (in this case probably until 1st July 2022 or so) the clause is triggered and Haaland can leave - if he chooses, to any club he chooses (though of course in theory it could be more specified in the actual contract, to exclude certain clubs or confine it to (a) certain club(s) etc.).
Dortmund then, apart from acknowledging that the money has been paid/formally offered and the release clause triggered, would have no say in it (and it wouldn't make sense to offer them more money either).
Am I the only one who doesn't buy Haaland's clause next year being what's branded in the media?(or it being as low as £66m? I'm seeing papers saying it's in the range of £70-80m)
Kinda like how we thought Sancho's contract was expiring in 2022 only for Zorc to stun everyone in the CAF that it's 2023. Wouldn't be shocked if something came out of Dortmund that it's actually a clause in and around £100m which puts them in a pretty relaxed position to reject all offers
There's been some conflicting numbers reported, which isn't too surprising given the nature of transfer news, however I could imagine, though I'm really only speculating, that the size of the release fee might have risen due to certain Haaland's achievements or benchmarks reached (number of games, of goals, cup win, something like that).
Generally, the fact that top strikers are in such high demand and command such high fees should also make us reflect on what the money which clubs get for selling one of them is actually
worth. People claim that it's in BVB's interest to sell now if they can get more money, but what good does that excess money actually do?
It could be put this way, the higher a received fee gets, the less worth are the €€ at the upper end of the fee when it comes to reinvesting in a decent replacement.
