Haaland’s release clause disappears at Manchester City

There are only 21 days left until one year has passed since the principle of agreement that they reached Manchester City y Borussia Dortmund for the transfer of Erling Haaland and that ended with the Norwegian ‘killer’ dressed in ‘skyblue’. The reigning Premier League champion disbursed some 60 million euros -which amount to 100 including commissions to Haaland’s father and his agents- and the footballer signed a five-year contract, until June 30, 2027, with a release clause set at £150m at the end of the 2023-24 season.

Linked to Pep’s future

Said clause, which could be activated in the event that a club agreed to pay that amount -just over 170 million euros- and that Haaland wanted to leave the Etihad Stadium, was tied to the future of Pep Guardiola in it City. However, and as he has advanced this Wednesday ‘The Athletic‘, This disappeared when the one from Santpedor renewed until 2025 last November.

Along the same lines, the aforementioned medium assures that in the City they would already be preparing a new contract offer for Haalandwithout specifying if there would be a release clause in it similar to the one the Scandinavian had in the summer of 2024.

An unbeatable start

Marriage City-Haland It could not have had a better start. Despite the difficulty that many players have in adapting to a competition like the Premier League, the former Dortmund He is on his way to breaking all records in his first year on English soil. With his brace in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final against Bayern Munich, Haaland surpassed the 44 goals of Ruud van Nistelrooy (2002-03, Manchester United) y Mohamed Salah (2017-18, Liverpool), becoming the first Premier League player to score 45 goals in a season in all competitions.

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Go for Cole and Shearer

Not happy with it Haaland he bigolear again last weekend in the victory of the City about him Leicester (3-1), reaching 32 goals in domestic competition and staying, with eight games to go before the end of the championship, just two of the 34 that the English scored Andy Cole (Manchester United, 1993-94) y Alan Shearer (1994-95, Blackburn Rovers), top scorers in the Premier in a single campaign.