Haaland’s New Contract Is Really Risky – Dr. Rob Wilson

Manchester City must be aware of the biggest danger that comes with Erling Haaland’s record-breaking new contract, Dr. Rob Wilson has said. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, there is an incredible amount of risk associated with giving players contracts that exceed four or five years because Haaland can easily break his leg during a game and get paid heavily for the remainder of his deal despite being out.

Rob added that it is a very risky philosophy, and it does not send the right message to the rest of the squad.

His words, “There is an incredible amount of risk associated with giving players contracts that exceed four or five years. What happens if Erling Haaland breaks his leg in three or four years and his career is over? He could just sit trying to do his rehab, getting paid, and that then presents huge problems for the club around the PSR compliance and all the rest of it.

I think it’s a really risky, really, really risky philosophy. The biggest danger actually, not just the single player and the issues with them, it’s what it says to the rest of the squad. You tend to see it lower down where a club might have a wage cap and then they bring a player in on a free transfer and the wage cap gets blown.

Then all the other players don’t want an increase in their wages so they benchmark against that player. If I was a player and I had an agent and I saw Erling Haaland getting a nine-and-a-half-year deal on half a million quid a week plus bonuses and I’m on 200, all of a sudden I’m saying actually no, I want 350, 400.”

WOW.

Erling Braut Haaland is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Manchester City and the Norway national team. Considered one of the best players in the world, he is known for his speed, strength, positioning, and finishing inside the box. Haaland holds the record for the most goals scored by a player in a single Premier League season, with 36.

Haaland was born on 21 July 2000 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, as his father Alfie Haaland was playing for Leeds United in the Premier League at the time. In 2004, at the age of three, he moved to Bryne, his parents’ hometown in Norway.

Along with playing football from an early age, Haaland took part in various other sports as a child, including handball, golf, and track and field. He also reportedly achieved a world record in his age category for the standing long jump when he was five, with a recorded distance of 1.63 metres in 2006.