Manchester City plans to slip a new contract proposal under Erling Haaland’s nose soon, the well-informed The Athletic know.
“Man City is preparing new contract Haaland, transfer fee already gone”
The medium also reports that the earlier limited lump sum payment has been removed from Haaland’s contract. The 22-year-old Norwegian’s contract included a clause that allowed him to leave for 170 million euros in the summer of 2024 – at the end of his second season. However, that clause would have been specifically linked to Pep Guardiola’s future. When the Spanish coach extended his contract in November, the option was removed.
Haaland, who defends a 3-0 lead with Man City in the quarter-finals of the Champions League on Wednesday evening, still has a contract until mid-2027 at the Etihad Stadium. There may be other clauses in his current contract.
City are keen to break Haaland’s contract now and believe the Scandinavian is open to talks. Although Haaland would have a connection with Real Madrid and would always have the ambition to move to the Spanish champions, he would be extremely happy in Manchester at the moment. The former Borussia Dortmund striker scored 32 goals in 28 Premier League matches and scored eleven times in seven games in the Champions League.
Longest racism suspension ever in England: trainer banned for three years
Staying in England, Former Crawley Town manager John Yems has been sentenced to the longest suspension ever handed out for racism in English football.
Initially, Yems (63) was sentenced to 17 months in exile. But the FA successfully challenged that verdict and now sees the sentence doubled. Yems violated twelve anti-discrimination rules.
“We fundamentally disagreed with the committee’s finding that this was not a case of deliberate racism,” the FA said. Yems admitted one charge at the hearing and has been found guilty of 11 of the remaining 15 charges.
Yems’ conduct, which occurred over a three-year period between 2019 and 2022 at the League Two club and was deemed proven by the committee, included berating a player of Asian descent for “curry blaster”, a Muslim player for “terrorist,” black players for “Zulu warriors,” and mispronouncing Arnold Schwarzenegger’s name to sound like a racial slur.
The jury stated in its sanctions that Yems’s case was “extremely serious”. And that his conduct would have required an “extremely long, even permanent, suspension” in other circumstances. But a lesser sentence was deemed appropriate as they “accepted that Mr Yems is not a conscious racist.”
The FA responded to the new ruling on Wednesday: ‘This is a deeply distressing case for the victims involved. And we hope the outcome of this appeal will contribute to some closure. We also hope that this will encourage anyone who has experienced or witnessed discrimination in football to speak up.”
