Gut feeling is that lads as big and muscular as him are more likely to have a short career, prone to back problems and so on. Don't have any stats though, might be bollocks.
Haaland at City | Signs new 9.5 year contract
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Enjoy Sunday pub League ya doll looking bastard.
Unless the Saudis flex their muscles no one will...
I'll never understand those long deals. Very stupid from City.
Not sure if I remember anything about the story correctly, but wasn’t there some link to the city owners acquiring Girona and Pep’s brother somehow also acquiring a stake in the club? Sure, Pep could’ve had ideal conditions to stay at city, but it’s not exactly absurd to think finances have played a big part of that decision.
Of course finances has played a huge part, he is paid huge wages to do what he is best at in conditions tailor made for him. Enough to make anyone stick around.
The post I responded alluded to that he is held against his will, and that he extends his contracts almost at gun point because he is implicated in our charges or something. Which is absurd whichever way you want to angle it. But especially absurd when you factor in that we have three ex-managers all walking about, one of them Mark Hughes that seem to hate us, which were all part of the club at the time the majority of charges started to stack. Are they all paid off the record to keep their gob shut because they werent good enough and only the succesful are trapped in their contracts? Make it make sense
Not sure what Pere Guardiola has to do with it. His association with Pep is most likely the reason City is in business with him, but he is a succesful business man in his own right. Unless the club would hold his brother stakes in Girona hostage, which also is absurd I'm not sure what the story is
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This is has never been done though, depending on their age a 4-5 year deal pretty much always keeps a player on his toes for the next one, a big money move away, or one last payday before they retire.
Halaand has this all rolled into one deal at the age of 24, it's a unique situation.
All that money, yet the entertainment value and glamour of a wet fart.
City are mocking the PL by offering their star player a 115 month contract!
Don't get how people connect this to city knowing they are getting off lightly.
If they knew they were getting relegated, this is exactly what they'd be doing as well.
In fact, they would do this in any scenario.
If they knew they were getting relegated, this is exactly what they'd be doing as well.
In fact, they would do this in any scenario.
This is a fair point. They may well be doing this in an effort to tie down their assets in case they do get relegated to stop them leaving.
We sign a nobody and the wages to be paid are plastered everywhere. This, probably the longest and most expensive contract ever, is it? And not even a mention of any money
I'd generally agree, but not in City's case because they just have too much wealth for it to be an issue. If he gets a career ending injury, as others have said, insurance will cover that. If he turns to shit, either the Saudis will still take him, or City will flog him to one of their myriad feeder clubs for an inflated fee in some sort of underhand deal.
Yeah, I clearly wasn’t following the conversation well enough, in that case. Of course no one is held against their will
, if that other poster alluded to that, it is absurd. I was simply responding to a notion that “what is stated in their contracts isn’t necessarily their actual wage at city” - citing possibly the girona example as an instance where financial benefits could flow to a family/an individual outside of his official contract. Alas, not too arsed about debating it all because truth is, I don’t really know and neither does anyone else (outside of any official evidence).You don't need a career ending injury, some injuries you recover from but are no longer the same. Players also regress, lose passion or focus, or simply not fit a new manager. There's no need for this kind of commitment.
He will not have signed such a long contract without a release clause. Anyway I have no clue what's the point of such long contracts on the club's side, since when the player kicks up a stink or wants out, they'll have to sell him eventually anyway. I don't think anyone believes Haaland will still be at City by 2030.
My take would be the whole thing is just a stupid show with some accounting benefits.
Let's revisit this post in a few months, shall we.
Either he knows they wont be punished and remain competitive
Or
He played a blinder and settled for a decade filled with loads of money and regardless of where the club is, he wins at life
Or
He played a blinder and settled for a decade filled with loads of money and regardless of where the club is, he wins at life
Told Alfie: make your son sign the contract or Roy Keane will be visiting your house every 5 am
It’s not a loophole around financial rules, and hasn’t been for a couple of years. I’m sure this has been explained many times on the forum, now
The PL cant just relegate them. The football league have to accept the relegation. They are a different entity. It should in theory have to be to the conference.
But IMO its all corrupt anyway. Money driven. I can envisage a scenario where city are relegated to the championship, with only the 20th and 19th clubs going down with them. City need a rebuild anyway, their transfer activity is underway on that.
Haaland and some of the best players will be loaned somewhere for a season, the likes of de bruyne and walker etc who need phasing out will be flogged to Saudi Arabia, they’ll bounce straight up from the championship, rebuild the squad and be back in business in no time.
Its going to be something pathetic like that rather than any severe punishment. The 9.5 year contract is probably to make sure that if anyone tries to buy him they have to pay absolutely astronomical money
Yep, we often don’t even need huge signings, just a player here or there bc the squad has a pressing need but they just refuse to sanction it. Happened in the 2020/21 Covid season.
I’m enjoying this season as it’s a break from a city season but we needed signings in the summer and we need them now too. We aren’t getting them. They have one bad half season and spend 200 mill in January it’s truly revolting. I hated competing with them because we built our squad the right way and they could just spend whatever they wanted.
Once normal service is resumed and they beat these charges it’s going to be grim viewing in this league. I don’t see how any club usurps the spending and wages they can offer under the tables. There’s a reason KDB silvas agueros Rodri etc aren’t ever tempted into moves abroad in their peak
Mind you none of this should excuse our own owners lack of backing. We’ve definitely left titles on the table because we didn’t want to be proactive.
Can definitely relate. It’s the same penny pinching that saw us go from the best side in Europe in 2008/09, to a steady but plodding one in the seasons that followed - getting by on sheer will and the mentality of a few senior players and the manager rather than flare and good football. To eventually one that can’t compete at the top because the level of recruitment just wasn’t up to scratch.
The ‘no value in thr market’ era is for me the root of the wilderness years we’re in now. The mismanagement from Woodward after Fergie left is a separate issue, but it all started when we just refused to replace our best players with anybody half decent. Ronaldo and tevez left, Owen and obertan came in. Potential deals for players like hazard, Lucas Moura and benzema were abandoned because they were too expensive. Older players like Giggs, Scholes and Rio were replaced not by top tier talent but by young, cleverley and smalling. And when you take away the manager who somehow made it all work, all you’re left with is a husk of a squad that isn’t good enough.
It’s not enough to rest on your laurels. You’ve got to strengthen even more to stay ahead of the rest, or they’ll catch up. I wonder if a similar thing will happen to you guys, and this void will appear when the likes of Salah and Van Dijk go.
City wages £26m per year + Nike sponsorship £20m per year …nice
Unless there's a fair few release/sale clauses in there, Haaland is a stupidity person
Been saying this for years. We went bargain basement shopping for players and relied heavily on Fergie's genius to get the best out of them, then acted surprised when it all came crashing down once the glue holding it all together retired.
I'm honestly astonished how incompetent the senior management team were to think that they could just put another Scottish PL manager at the helm once Fergie retired, and all would be rosy.
He will enjoy generational wealth from the sportswashing farce. Good for him and feck off into obscurity.
Rest assure he knows exactly what he’s doing ….stupid he ain’t
I can't think of why anyone not stupid would sign a 10 year contract.
It's quite dumb on City's part too. He could put his feet up for the rest of his career from tomorrow
The weird thing is it felt like it was reaching a good time for both parties to go their separate ways. We all know now that Haaland has some serious limitations but his goal scoring has dropped off from what it was too. I figured he'd be moving on for a new challenge possibly this summer. Replacement for Lewandowski at Barcelona maybe.
Seems like you’ve contradicted yourself here?
Got himself one of the biggest deals in football/sporting history, sets himself and family up for life.
Alternatively he doesn’t sign, suffers a career ending injury, then what?
Barcelona is the only option for him at this point. And they don’t have the money.
He can’t go to Madrid, he saw how bad it can be at PSG when Mbappe was stuck there and I can’t imagine he wants to go back to the Bundesliga.
He could always juat sign a shorter contract. 10 years is stupid from both angles. The player has no idea what state the club will be at in 5 years time, whether they'll be happy or settled, who the manager will be.
The club has no idea if the player will even still be bothering to keep himself fit by then. Or he might get a serious injury. Or might become toxic.
There's no realistic way for either party to know what the situation will be even in a few months time with the charges and current form.
There's no contradiction at all. The reason clubs and players don't usually sign 10 year contracts with each other is because there are a lot of reasons why it's dumb. The only advantage is security but you get that with a 4-5 year deal anyway.
Just seems like city making a stupid statement for no apparent reason to me.
We are on the stock exchange and it generally needs to be known.
City purposely try to hide the amounts and doesn't include getting paid by family given high roles in football clubs and ambassador roles etc so it's pretty hard to guess.
I think there needs to be a unanimous expelling of them from the league.
Let them and the barcodes play each other every week, or do their super league bollocks.
There has to be push back or it's gonna be Ligue 1 levels of pointlessness.
Ok, sorry if I missed that. I suppose I would ask, why did the premier league take action against it then? I believe they changed the rules so that clubs couldn’t amortize for longer than 5 years? It shows that they saw Chelsea’s practices as unethical at least.
No footballer of sound mind would have turned down a contract like he’s been offered.
It was Haaland’s choice ….be sure he’s thought about and covered all scenarios.
Mancity will now do more deals like this. They know they are getting away with cheating and PL cant touch them. 200m spent and this insane contract when you are being investigated for fraud.
I think it's funny that just because City have done this alot of people just assume it's bound to be a good idea.
I don't see how this would ever have been a good idea for any player we had in the past. Even if we'd done this with Ronaldo we'd have reached that point where he wanted out, Rooney where he'd have started to decline but we'd be locked in for 2-3 more years, or Rashford after his 30 goal season meaning we'd be locked into this mess for another 7 years!
It screams City been paranoid that some top club would have taken him soon, and Halaand choosing financial security and an easy life, rather than backing himself to get this naturally through what he does on the pitch.
I don't see how this would ever have been a good idea for any player we had in the past. Even if we'd done this with Ronaldo we'd have reached that point where he wanted out, Rooney where he'd have started to decline but we'd be locked in for 2-3 more years, or Rashford after his 30 goal season meaning we'd be locked into this mess for another 7 years!
It screams City been paranoid that some top club would have taken him soon, and Halaand choosing financial security and an easy life, rather than backing himself to get this naturally through what he does on the pitch.
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