£375,000! Manchester City's Prince is expected to renew his contract at the European Championship, with a weekly salary comparable to De Bruyne and Haaland

Snow Wolf Kanball

2024-06-09 09:45Posted in Guangdong Sports Creators

On June 9, Beijing time, Phil Thomas, a senior sports reporter for the British "Sun", exclusively broke the news that Premier League champion Manchester City hopes to renew the contract with academy player Foden until 2030 after the European Championship, in order to scare away Real Madrid and other teams from interested in him. According to The Sun, Foden will be paid £375,000 a week on his contract extension, thus equalling Kevin De Bruyne and Erling Haaland as the real highest-paid player in Manchester City's squad and the highest-paid footballer in British history.

In the just-concluded 2023/24 season, Foden played 53 games in all competitions for Manchester City, scoring a big double-double of 27 goals and 12 assists, setting two career highs. With De Bruyne out for half a season and Haaland out for February, Foden took up the banner of Manchester City's attack and scored wonderful goals at key moments many times, becoming the biggest contributor to the Blues' fourth consecutive Premier League title. Foden was also named Premier League and FWA Player of the Year for his performances, and rightly so.

As one of the most iconic players in the Manchester City Academy, Foden also experienced a bleak time on the bench, but he did not leave the club like Jadon Sancho, Brahim Dias and Palmer, choosing to stick with Etihad and finally wait for his own spring. Today, the 24-year-old Foden is an absolute mainstay in the Manchester City squad, with a total of 270 appearances in all competitions for the team, scoring 87 goals and 53 assists, and holding 17 trophies including six Premier Leagues, four English League Cups, two English FA Cups, two English Community Shields, one Champions League, one UEFA Super Cup and one Club World Cup.

After being promoted to the Manchester City first team in the summer of 2017, Foden earned just £20,000 a week, which is an apprenticeship salary for Manchester City. This continued until October 2022. At that time, Manchester City officially announced that he had extended Foden's contract until the summer of 2027, and his weekly salary also increased from £20,000 to £225,000, a full 11-fold increase. Although it is not the highest salary in the team, it is barely worthy of the status of the prince of Manchester City's academy.

In fact, back in the middle of the season, there was news that Manchester City wanted to renew Foden's contract, but given that the team was playing on the third line at the time, they decided to postpone negotiations until this summer, after the European Championships, in order not to distract the players. As a living advertisement for Manchester City's academy, Manchester City naturally do not want Foden to leave in the summer of 2027, and they are also waiting for a suitable opportunity to sit down with the players and communicate calmly, and finally reach a happy agreement.

According to The Sun, Foden's new contract will be extended until the summer of 2030 with a weekly salary of £375,000, and this contract will lock Foden's best years with the team completely. The point is, even if his new contract expires, Foden is only 30 years old, and his career is still long.

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