With several stakeholders knocking on the door, the club will not make it easy for Erling Haaland to sign
The board of Borussia Dortmund has set a selling price for striker Erling Haaland with several clubs interested in buying Norwegian on the summer market. The Bavarian club, sources told ESPN, would say goodbye to the Norwegian, one of the most sought-after players in world football, in exchange for 180 million euros (212 million dollars).
Haaland has quickly established himself as a Bundesliga star, scoring 49 goals in the same number of matches. after joining FC Salzburg in January 2020. He has scored 32 goals in 31 games this season, including 10 goals in six Champions League games, and his agent, Mino Raiola, has said 10 clubs are eligible to sign it.
The attacker moved to Dortmund last year under great interest from Manchester Unitedbut the Bundesliga team managed to secure a deal after agreeing to include a termination clause in their contract. That clause will run until the summer of 2022. Clubs can sign Haaland this summer, but the 180 million euros that Dortmund is asking represents a premium for losing him before the clause takes effect next year.
Dortmund underlined their stance on their stars last summer when United tried to negotiate a lower price for the England international. Jadon SanchoThe Premier League team tried to convince BVB to sell Sancho for less than € 120 million, but Dortmund refused to negotiate.
The same position will be taken by Dortmund’s board for Haaland this summer, sources told ESPN, in an action designed to warn Europe’s heavyweights not to bid. United, Manchester City Chelsea Real Madrid Barcelona and Bayern Munich They have varying interest in the Norwegian international, but in a transfer market hit by the coronavirus pandemic, Dortmund hopes their 180 million euro valuation will keep Haaland at the club for another year.
Sources have told ESPN that Chelsea’s leading figures thought they could entice Dortmund to strike a deal this summer., but this was before the Bundesliga team’s position on Haaland was clarified. Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has long been an admirer of the 20-year-old, but the club’s latest financial data shows sales fell 7% and profits 7%, with Solskjaer admitting that the club ‘ realistic ‘must be. about transfers.
Barcelona’s new president Joan Laporta is eager to make Haaland the cornerstone of his second term at the club., but now that Barça has 1,100 million euros in debt, a move of 180 million euros seems very difficult.
LaLiga president Javier Tebas has said it takes a “magic trick” for Barça or Real Madrid to sign Haaland given the amounts involved., and sources told ESPN that Manchester City are surprised by the optimistic reports in Spain about the two teams’ hopes to sign him, as they think they are in a stronger position to sign him.
Dortmund are struggling in the Bundesliga this season, despite Haaland’s genius, with the club vying to qualify for the Champions League. next season under interim coach Edin Terzic. BVB is four points behind Eintracht Frankfurt and the meeting between the two teams at the Westfalenstadion on April 3 will go a long way in determining who will participate in Europe’s most important club tournament.