The soap opera is over before the summer begins. The Manchester City confirmed this Tuesday what was an open secret: Erling Haland He will play with the light blue shirt from next season, in an agreement from which several of the final figures have begun to transpire.
The ‘sky blue’ have paid a termination clause 60 million euros to Borussia Dortmund. Less than the 75 ‘kilos’ mentioned in recent weeks. Adding agent commissions and transfer bonuses, the total deal is expected to be around €100 million.
The contract that he will sign with City will be for five years, and will include one of the highest salaries in Guardiola’s squad. Haaland will be, along with Kevin De Bruyne, the club’s highest paid footballer with a salary of close to 400,000 pounds a week. An amount that ensures that it will not break the team’s salary scale.
Manchester City sources argue that paying this price for a striker of his age and caliber “It’s a brilliant operation & rdquor;. The final numbers have been lower than those speculated during the last weeks in the press, something that from the ‘citizen’ club link to “a campaign to distort the operation & rdquor; by the teams that were in the shortlist for Haaland.
Also that all the competitors offered “Very similar amounts” to those of City, and that the player’s final decision was for sporting and emotional reasons: his father played in the Manchester City shirt at the end of the 90s, and Haaland has been photographed since he was a child wearing blue club shirts.
Haaland’s arrival would not have been possible, however, if last summer Tottenham had sold harry kane. Manchester City put all the meat on the grill to sign the captain of the English team, but the president Daniel Levy he flatly refused to sell his star. A year ago, City assured that they did not want to agree to the exorbitant demands of the London club. Today, they claim that the decision not to sign Kane “It is legitimized with the incorporation of Haaland & rdquor ;.