Joe Hart has signed a new five-year contract that will keep him at Manchester City until 2019, with the goalkeeper promising to carry on developing as a player.
The 27-year-old’s terms will increase from £80,000 a week to a basic of around £110,000 and will be heavily performance-based, meaning his salary could rise to close to £150,000, in line with a host of the team’s top players, who agreed fresh terms along similar lines at the start of the season.
Hart said: “I’m really happy, I’ve been here a long time now and I want to keep that going. The new deal means I get to stay longer – the club’s doing amazing things at the moment, we’ve created history and we want to keep doing that.
“Wanting to stay here was never going to be an issue for me – I’ve loved every moment since I joined. The club’s growing and I’ve been really lucky to be part of the ride.
“I just want to keep winning with the team and keep developing. A lot of the boys have signed long-term deals, so we’re building as a squad and I think that quite a few of us have been here for a long time now.
“We’re enjoying building that winning mentality, how the club is growing is around us and how we need to grow along with it.”
The contract should extend Hart’s time at City to 13 years as he signed from Shrewsbury Town in 2006. He has won two Premier League titles, the FA Cup and League Cup and is also the established England No1.
Hart becomes the seventh senior City player to commit long-term to the club, following Sergio Agüero, Vincent Kompany, David Silva, Samir Nasri, Edin Dzeko and Aleksandar Kolarov.
