Haaland signs new 9 & 1/2 year contract
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Erling Haaland has been prolific since coming to English football in 2022, scoring 79 goals in 87 Premier League games for Manchester City, and this Friday he has been rewarded by being handed out the longest contract in football. The Norwegian has signed a new nine-year Man City contract, keeping him at the club until the summer of 2034. His old release clause has reportedly been removed and replaced with a much higher one, whilst it’s also suggested he will become one of the highest paid players in Premier League history. Reflecting on his new deal, Haaland, said: “I am really happy to have signed my new contract and to be able to look forward to spending even more time at this great club. Manchester City is a special Club, full of fantastic people with amazing supporters. I am City no matter what.”
In years gone by, a five-year contract was usually the longest a club would hand out to a player, and even those lengths of deals were usually reserved for younger stars. Nowadays with pressure from PSR (Premier League’s Profit and Sustainability laws) and FFP (Financial Fair Play) clubs are keen to spread the cost of their player’s wages over a number of years to comply. This has led to some clubs handing out huge lengthy contracts to stars they want to tie down. Some teams have been utilising this a lot more than others.
Of course there are other reasons too – in some cases clubs may have so much faith in a player that they wanted his long-term future committed to the club (such as in Haaland’s case). With all this in mind, which players are currently sitting on the longest contracts in europe‘s top-five leagues? Here at Transfermarkt, we have compiled a list of the players with six or more years left for clubs in either the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, the Bundesliga or Ligue 1, and, unsurprisingly, Chelsea dominate proceedings.
The players with the longest contracts in the top five leagues
The aforementioned new Haaland deal means he holds the mantle of having the longest current contract from all players in the top-five leagues, with his nine and a half year deal running until June 2034. Last summer, Cole Palmer signed a new Chelsea contract to extend his stay at Stamford Bridge until 2033, and it leaves him with the joint-second longest contract in the top-five leagues. He will be 31 years old when that contract expires. His teammate Nicolas Jackson also recently signed a new deal that will also keep the Senegalese striker at the club until 2033. Three players currently are tied down to an seven-year contract – Chelsea midfielder Enzo Fernández’s current deal runs until June 2032, as does Athletic Club duo Dani Vivian and Oihan Sancet. There are then 12 players with six years of contract left at their clubs, and some more Chelsea stars crop up.
Summer signings in goalkeeper Filip Jørgensen, hybrid full-back and midfielder Renato Veiga, and winger Pedro Neto are all tied down until June 2031 on six-year contracts. That trio join midfielder Moisés Caicedo, winger Mykhaylo Mudryk and new defender Aáron Anselmino on six-year deals. Two of West Ham’s new summer signings were also handed deals until 2031 in defenders Max Kilman and Aaron Wan-Bissaka. New Spurs keeper Antonín Kinský was also given a contract until 2031. Another Athletic Club star is on the list is Beñat Prados on a six-year contract, as well as Osasuna’s Jon Moncayola.
Eight of the 17 players on 7+ year deals are Chelsea players. There’s no doubt the Blues have a lot of talent tied down to the club, but if the time comes where they want to sell some of them, getting those on huge long contracts off the wage bill may prove to be difficult. No Bundesliga or Ligue 1 players feature on the players with 7+ year contracts. But the joint most valuable player in the world in Haaland now leads the way as the player with the longest deal – the Norwegian will certainly set his sights on breaking a lot of records in the next nine and half years.
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