Erling Haaland

[Gumzy97]

David Ornstein has done a pod today for The Athletic, he says he has good sources at City and they are not interested. Kane and Lukaku are also going to be round the £100m fee.

I’d take this Patson Daka from Salzburg. Ings and Silva also come into the equation as cheaper alternatives.

Whilst a striker is overdue, it is worth noting than next year Haaland, Mbappe and Neymar, could all be going at bargain basement prices.

Daka is available for 18 million euros from Salzburg apparently bargain

 

[citizen_maine]

Re a buyout clause, top clubs outside of Spain don’t insert these into their contracts.

Dortmund say Hello

 

[ancoats]

The club wouldn’t want to sign him to a deal beyond that because if he flops or gets seriously injured and no one comes in for him then it’s a huge outlay with minimal returns.

Likewise, Haaland won’t want to commit such a large chunk of his career to a club he hasn’t yet played for. He (and his agent) would also want to be able to negotiate additional contracts in the future, receiving a signing fee, higher wages and/or better terms on each occasion.

No issues with signing him to a 3/4/5 year deal. 2 years before his deal expires the club would start negotiating an extension provided that it’s what all parties wanted, at which point new terms could be negotiated.

Re a buyout clause, top clubs outside of Spain don’t insert these into their contracts. Ultimately if Haaland wanted to leave then we would either have to sell him, convince him to stay or he would leave on a free transfer when his contract expired.

Whilst I understand your point re Sane and agree that it was frustrating, he didn’t want to be here and we would’ve sold him the summer prior to the one he left had he not got injured and we would’ve got a decent fee for him. It was just unfortunate that he did his ACL and the fee dropped significantly as he only had a year left on his contract and was coming back from a long-term absence. If Haaland wanted to leave at some point in the future, we wouldn’t stand in his way. Chances are we would sell him two years before his contract expired in such a scenario, like we would’ve done with Sane

if we do sign him then we get a solid contract of a 5 year deal with options and a fucking big buyout clause
a minimum of 5 years gives both parties a future to review in 3 years. but i feel haaland would be a major player by then and city win champions league then pep maybe leaves and the new manager will have to build his own team

pep is key to getting haaland at city and at the moment pep's got 2 more seasons. so maybe haaland will only sign a 5 year deal and then see what happens next

but the club have to give pep a world class striker in the summer. even if its over £100million it will be worth every penny in winning more and more silverware and the big one

 

[ancoats]

We don't do buy out clauses.

we fucking have to start then

if we sign haaland city would be daft not to have one because we know what agents are like
sane and munich did city up like a kipper that can not happen again. so take out the greedy agent and the buying club out of the question with a big big buyout clause in it. i would start at £500 million ? but even that could be to low if haaland rips up the premier league with 30 to 40 goals a season

 

[ancoats]

Dortmund say Hello

yep

£65 million or something is haalands buyout

 

[aguero93:20]

we fucking have to start then

if we sign haaland city would be daft not to have one because we know what agents are like
sane and munich did city up like a kipper that can not happen again. so take out the greedy agent and the buying club out of the question with a big big buyout clause in it. i would start at £500 million ? but even that could be to low if haaland rips up the premier league with 30 to 40 goals a season

Why would we have a buyout clause?

 

[jimharri]

Has he signed yet?

 

[p.taker]

we fucking have to start then

if we sign haaland city would be daft not to have one because we know what agents are like
sane and munich did city up like a kipper that can not happen again. so take out the greedy agent and the buying club out of the question with a big big buyout clause in it. i would start at £500 million ? but even that could be to low if haaland rips up the premier league with 30 to 40 goals a season

A buyout clause wouldn't have stopped Sane's contract from expiring....

 

[ancoats]

I was under the impression he was on 225,000 a week and stayed on that.

i think aguero had 2 or 3 improved deals at city and the last one was around £300.000 a week
but manchester city have very good bonuses set in place and money for goals and titles and trophies are big money

 

[ancoats]

Has he signed yet?

yep last night

i witness the paper serviette being sign in pencil