{"id":10243,"date":"2026-05-18T19:42:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=10243"},"modified":"2026-05-18T19:42:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:42:45","slug":"journalist-says-man-city-could-activate-german-aces-release-clause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=10243","title":{"rendered":"Journalist Says Man City Could &#8220;Activate&#8221; German Ace&#8217;s Release Clause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><strong>Man City are considering whether to \u201cactivate\u201d the release clause in the contract of Hertha Berlin midfielder Kennet Eichhorn, according to journalist Christian Falk.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writing on his personal website, <em>CF Bayern Insider<\/em>Falk confirmed <strong>reports<\/strong> from the UK that the Cityzens are planning to loan back the teenager to Bayer Leverkusen, but he also said that the player will only cost \u20ac12m (\u00a310.3m) to buy:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPep Guardiola\u2019s Manchester City have the idea to sign Kennet Eichhorn and then loan him back to Bayer Leverkusen. That\u2019s an idea, and there\u2019s a good reason for this. Eichhorn is not allowed to play for Man City, as he\u2019s still 16 years old. So, they have to find a way of saving him for the future, and this method would allow them to do so. Activate his roughly \u20ac12m (\u00a310.3m) release clause at Hertha BSC and let him play in the Bundesliga.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"sra_unit\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" id=\"block-sra\" href=\"https:\/\/mancitynews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/snack-related-articles\/dist\/css\/snack-related.min.css?240402-33626\" type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\"\/>\n<aside class=\"sra-group sra-related-list\">\n<h2 class=\"sra-group-head\">Most Read on Man City News<\/h2>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cNormally, I don\u2019t like accusations of the Bundesliga being a \u201cfarmer\u2019s league\u201d, but in this case, it could be true! They\u2019d let Eichhorn play until he\u2019s 18 years of age, then he\u2019d be allowed to play in the Premier League for Man City \u2013 if he\u2019s good enough! Now, if they want to buy him, they have to guarantee him playing time at another club. Leverkusen would be fine with this!\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Why is he \u201cnot allowed\u201d to play for Man City?<\/h2>\n<p>As Falk mentions, the Cityzens will have to loan out the player even if they do reach an agreement to sign him over the coming days\/weeks.<\/p>\n<p>That is because UK work permit rules do not allow English teams to sign players from abroad who are below the age of 18.<\/p>\n<p>Leverkusen would be the beneficiary of having a talented young player for at least two years before he officially makes the switch to Manchester.<\/p>\n<h2>Suitors are queuing around the block for Eichhorn<\/h2>\n<p><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"0fab81ce12e48a0794275e1d82449fb1\" image-id=\"1077414246\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 100%;\"\/><!-- https:\/\/smartframe.io\/embedding-support --><br \/>The teenager has reportedly attracted the attention of at least five other Premier League clubs, including Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Newcastle and Tottenham.<\/p>\n<p>Teams in Germany, such as Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and RB Leipzig, are also keen on recruiting Eichhorn, but it appears City are now favourites to secure his signature.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want more news on Man City? Add Man City News as a preferred source on Google<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man City are considering whether to \u201cactivate\u201d the release clause in the contract of Hertha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}