21-year-old midfielder Heorhii Sudakov has extended his contract with football club Shakhtar and accepted the most important clause in Ukraine’s history.
Source: Shakhtar website; Suspicion. Sports Information Point
Details: The new agreement runs until 31 December 2028. According to journalist Fabrizio Romano, his release clause (the minimum amount of money another team must pay if they wish to purchase a player and end their current contract) exceeds €100 million. Suspilne.Sport reported that this is the largest such clause in the history of Ukrainian football.
Sudakov is a regular in Shakhtar’s first-team squad in the 2022/23 season, in which he made a total of 39 appearances, scored five goals and provided 11 assists. In April 2023, Heorhii signed a new contract with the Donetsk club until June 2028.
This season, Sudakov played 18 games (15 starts) and scored 3 goals and 1 assist. In addition, Sudakov played matches for the Ukrainian national team in the qualifiers for Euro 2024.
Context: In December 2023, Italian side Napoli presented Shakhtar with around €40 million for the transfer of Sudakov, an offer that Shakhtar rejected.
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