Erling Haaland’s agent Rafael Pimenta has revealed some important information regarding the 22-year-old star’s future at Man City.
Joining Man City in the summer of 2022, Erling Haaland immediately became a phenomenon in the English Premier League. After only 19 games, the 22-year-old striker has pocketed 25 goals, surpassing the achievements of Salah and Son Heung-min with 23 goals last season.
However, the brighter Haaland shines, the more Man City has reason to worry. European media said that many big men are “standing still” and have planned to take him away from Etihad even though the contract between the two sides is still valid until June 2027.
However, according to Haaland’s representative, Ms. Rafaela Pimenta, the current contract term is not a decisive factor in preventing Haaland’s departure in the future. Specifically, the Brazilian lawyer said his client will always have the ‘key’ to open the ‘door’ in case he wants to be freed.
“I support freedom. That’s what I’ve always fought for. One of my priorities as an agent is to provide my clients with what I call the ‘key to the door’.
When a player comes to a club, I will do everything I can to make it possible for the key to open the door” in his hands. And if one day he can’t stand being at that club anymore because he doesn’t like it, or not being paid properly, or because his wife wants to live in Paris?Then he has the right to leave, right?
I don’t like that my players are not free to decide. I have done every contract with this company for the past 25 years. There has never been a time when a player said ‘I want to leave’ and it didn’t work,” Haaland’s agent told Spanish newspaper AS.
Despite insisting Haaland’s right to leave the club, Ms Pimenta refused to mention the existence of a €200 million release clause in her City contract.
In October 2022, the most prestigious British newspaper The Athletic reported that Haaland’s contract with Man City actually has a release clause from 2024 for a fee of 200 million euros. This number will gradually decrease in the final years of the contract.
Notably, the source revealed that this release clause only applies to teams outside of England. This is said to be the door to bring Haaland to the greatest team in the world, Real Madrid. The 14-time Champions League-winning club pursued the Norwegian striker closely before he joined Pep Guardiola’s Man City.
As for Real Madrid, the team is said to plan to activate Haaland’s contract release clause in 2024. Los Blancos believe that the level of the striker born in 2000 is suitable to inherit the position and the shirt. Benzema’s number 9 in the future.
