While it’s not official yet, Erling Haaland is widely expected to sign for Manchester City in the coming week or so.
The Norwegian striker will follow in his father’s footsteps by donning the light blue shirt in the north of England, where he will finally experience Premier League football.
Borussia Dortmund have been rather coy about the whole matter, but it appears that even they are getting a tad tired of the whole matter, telling Sport1 that with the Bundesliga side’s players not scheduled in for training on Monday, they ‘allowed Erling to take care of personal matters’.
Now, following a flurry of articles stating the transfer was around the corner, the German website explain the deal is ‘finally in the home stretch’.
Manchester City ‘informed BVB last week’ they would ‘trigger the €75m release clause’, and ‘a contract ready to be signed has already been negotiated’.
Haaland wanted everything sorted before the final game of the season ‘so that he could say goodbye to Dortmund fans in the home game against Hertha Berlin on Saturday’.
He’s expected to earn more than Kevin De Bruyne at Manchester City, which is quite the feat considering he’s still only 21 years of age, but when you’ve scored 85 goals and assisted another 23 in 88 appearances for Borussia Dortmund as well as 29 goals and seven assists in 27 games for Red Bull Salzburg, the world is pretty much your oyster.
