Erling Haaland has signed a new nine-and-a-half-year contract to keep him at Manchester City until 2034.
Haaland’s previous contract was due to expire in the summer of 2027 but he has now put pen to paper on one of football’s longest-ever deals that will see him turn 34 years old by the time it ends.
The 24-year-old had been linked with a move to Real Madrid having scored 111 goals in 126 games since joining City in June 2022 from Borussia Dortmund.
City, sixth in the Premier League, are rebuilding this month with defenders Abdukodir Khusanov and Vitor Reis from Lens and Palmeiras respectively close to signing while a deal has been agreed for Eintracht Frankfurt striker Omar Marmoush.
Haaland scored 10 goals in the first five Premier League games of this season, including back-to-back hat-tricks, but has bagged only six more in the 16 league matches since. He sits second behind Mo Salah, who has 18 goals, in the top-scorers chart.
Haaland has lifted two Premier League titles, the Champions League, an FA Cup and a Super Cup in his two-and-a-half seasons with City.
Man City signed Haaland on a five-year contract for £51m by paying his release clause in a deal that was expected to rise to £85.5m in total when agent fees, signing bonus and other costs were taken into account.
Haaland scored 86 goals in 89 matches for Dortmund after joining from RB Salzburg in January 2020.
Analysis: Haaland can shatter scoring records
Sky Sports’ Nick Wright:
Erling Haaland’s new contract is bad news for Manchester City’s Premier League rivals. With 79 goals in 87 games since his arrival from Borussia Dortmund in 2022, plus another 32 in 39 appearances in other competitions, his scoring feats have been extraordinary.
His Premier League goal total is 24 higher than anyone else’s in the same time period, with Mohamed Salah, on 55, the only other player to have even reached a half-century. Haaland is in a league of his own when it comes to the art of putting the ball in the net.
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A look at all the angles ofHaaland’s audacious chip in Manchester City’s 4-1 win over West Ham
After only two-and-a-half seasons, he is close to cracking the top 50 in the Premier League scoring charts. Carry on at his current rate and he will be level with Fernando Torres (85) before the end of next month. Ruud van Nistelrooy’s total (95) will be matched by May.
The difference, of course, is that those two players, and indeed all of those above him, needed far longer to reach those kinds of numbers. Haaland has set new standards in the competition, averaging an unprecedented 0.99 goals per 90 minutes since his debut.
With nine-and-a-half years on his new deal, and still to enter his prime at 24, he should have time to spare when it comes to reeling in the name at the very top of the pile. Alan Shearer’s total of 260 goals came from 441 games. Haaland is unlikely to need that many.
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