De Bruyne is now joining other players who have a long contract with Pep Guardiola’s team
Kevin de Bruyne signed a new contract with Manchester City until June 2025 and became the highest paid player in the clubBut he did it in a very different way than most footballers do.
T-shirt number 17 has no agent, so he negotiated the deal directly with the city council. Without an agent to argue in his favor, de Bruyne used the services of a technology team, according to English newspapers.
The idea to use the experts in Big Data, which consists of a huge set of data, to calculate its value and show the size of its importance in the English distribution, came from the Belgian star.
Employed for 76 million euros in 2015, from Wolfsburg, De Bruyne adds 255 games with it the city of Manchester. The midfielder has 65 goals, 110 assists and eight titles, including two in the Premier League; and everything seems to indicate that this season he will raise for the third time the maximum title that English football offers.
Showing the relationship with the figures, performance and market value, the Belgian convinced the management to award him a new contract. De Bruyne He now earns £ 300,000 a week, about $ 412,000.
Analysts hired by the midfielder have also made a projection of what Manchester City could do in the next four years, when the contract between the player and the club ends. The experts analyzed the value and age of each player in the English team, data that encouraged De Bruyne to stay at the Etihad stadium.
“Signing this contract was a quick decision. This team is made for success and gives me everything I need to maximize my football,” the player said on the official website of The city of Manchester.
De Bruyne now joins other players who have a long contract with the team Pep Guardiola. In this group the defender stands out Rúben Dias, linked to the club until 2026, Bernardo Silva, Ederson, Aymeric Laporte, João Cancelo, Ferran Torres and Nathan Aké, all with contract up to 2025.
Next on the list Town is Raheem Sterling, who has a contract until June 2023, as well as the Brazilian Gabriel Jesus, the Algerian Riyad Mahrez and the German Ilkay Gündogan, an important figure in the current season.