Even PSG can't keep hold of Mbappe if he decides to leave. He just simply refuse to extend his contract and a club must sell a year before contract expires, which is about 3 years. I don't buy the release clause BS.
Yes that's true but us being that big club is getting hard to sell.
Great for them. That's not what I would want for Manchester United.
You may get Cavani and he doesn't has a release clause. Good for you.
Not much Dortmund can do when Haaland's release clause becomes active.
Nothing to laugh about. He’d have wanted a release clause inserted with us as well, and we wouldn’t have agreed to that just like we passed on Reguilón due to the buy-back clause real insisted on.
Of course good young players want to go to Utd. This ‘transfer saga’ has no impact.
His agent will still ask for a release clause in the contract. That's Haaland's "get out of jail" card if things don't work out for him.
We turned down a release clause. We would have had 2 seasons at most from him.
I still think we should have done this. All goes well and there would be a decent chance we could renew and remove the clause.
How do we know how our club treated BVB? The decision makers at BVB have a reputation of playing games during negotiations. Woodward has earned himself a similar reputation. Nothing strange about playing hard ball when 10's of millions are at stake, don't you think?
But maybe United first. With a release clause. I think he wants to move around. When he is 32, he´ll probably be playing for Leeds.
Despite turning out to be a huge talent, Utd were absolutely right to turn down this deal due to the insistence of a release clause.
In some ways, I agree with you on principle but is this pragmatic in reality? In January, we supposedly spent 4 million on loan fees for Ighalo. He has scored 5 goals for us. We will have him 18 months and get nothing back for him. £4m spend = 5 goals (I doubt he'll get many more).
I would disagree up to a point. If they are good enough you tell the talent you love them and you do what it takes to get them in the door. If they are setting the world alight you start offering them new deals without the clause from the very start. If not let him leave for the clause? If things were going well I’m sure it would be something we would have figured out easily enough. We leave these things to chance too much when we don’t just close the deal when it’s there for the taking. Haaland would have been such an important signing. Great price. Great profile. We’ve hopefully only been messing around with Ighalo and Cavani and other stopgap options because we want to go back in for him. he’s the best long term option out there by far. i doubt we’ll even get him at this stage.
Yes we could have got a good couple of years out of him but Utd would never put themselves in a situation where they develop an asset into a superstar and then have to sell him significantly less than he’s worth.
But on the same note you would question why a player who is getting the opportunity to to play for Utd is insisting on a release clause. It’s not a clear sign of dedication to want to join the club or showing a sense of desire. If you’re happy to join a club you would happily waive any release clause.
Fair enough nothing else seems to work.
We signed twin young RW just this window. We also have the youngest forward line in the PL. We are absolutely the right fit for ambitious young players.
The difference is Haaland is offering his service to clubs under his terms. If you don't like it, then next please. He will move around clubs like Ibra. Also, Raiola is his agent/Representive that works for him, not the other way around. All the terms are agreed and approved by the player and his family, especially his dad.
We and Juventus have experience with Raiola. We should know what to do when the release clause gets activated. Haalands next move will likely be a longer term one.
Agree with this, and I think that United would have felt the same way too. He'll certainly play in the PL one day and hopefully having Ole and that relationship might put us in pole position, but who knows.
Like a release clause, and then off to Madrid in two years time.
United didn't walk away. Haaland chose BVB. You can believe whatever version you like. In the end he joined BVB.
Just stick Kimpembe on him, problem solved.
If there was any proof Ole has zero pull this is it. Couldn't even convince his own countryman that he trained before to join him
Haaland and his dad did talk to Man United so yes there was a chance. In the end according to his dad they felt only the coach want the player.
