Erling Haaland

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According to Fabreeze Romano, the chancer of obvious.

'Rumours about Erling Haaland’s future are chasing each other. From the Premier League to the La Liga, the deal will certainly not be easy and to date there is no favourite club: the striker is still linked to Borussia Dortmund, the release clause will only be valid from 2022 and not this summer. That’s why the situation remains calm at the moment, with all the top clubs interested but Borussia fighting to stay in the Champions League: this will be the real key to Haaland’s transfer.

In England there is the interest of Chelsea, there is no problem linked to the relationship between Thomas Tuchel and Borussia Dortmund; the real problem is the cost of the player, with Manchester City, Manchester United but also Real Madrid and Barcelona very interested.

There is no offer from Bayern Munich for summer 2021, as Juventus are very cautious on this front.

Mino Raiola does not like to decide the destination of his players in advance, so any negotiations for Haaland will not start before May.'
 
Guscruz said:
So you think we’re only signing one striker and that’s it?
The Grealish deal looks very likely to me. He seems like he would love to come, I see a lot of admiration from Pep and influential players, the homegrown factor, the age of key players who are injury prone and the fact he’s likely to go somewhere now, so even if we bring him in this season and he’s not featured a lot, in the one after that he would be major, and a player like that you don’t find easily. Also, apparently he wouldn’t cost too much given the clause we found out about. And he can play in different positions
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Haaland would be a replacement for Aguero, Jesus would be the second striker with Delap being developed into the first team setup, I honestly don’t see any space or need for another striker.

Danny Ings in my opinion just isn’t good enough and with his contract negotiations ongoing it just feels like a manoeuvre by his agent. I feel the other players we’ve been linked to are probably players that exist on a list that we‘re interested in but as it stands it sppears Haaland has been identified as the player we want off that list and the only player we are negotiating for.

Jack Grealish is a phenomenal player and I love to see him at city but for me with Gundo, KDB, Foden, Sterling playing in the positions where he’d naturally fit I don’t see a place or need for him. There was a rumoured release clause of £45m (which villa denied) in his 2018 contract but that was massively increased when he signed the new 5 year contract last year. If he’d cost £100m which I believe is the figure villa want then I don’t see us moving for him.

Arguably left back not attacking midfield is a much weaker position for us, Nuno Mendes seems a superb young player who fit right into our system, I think he’d be available at something around €45m plus Pedro Perro which is well within our means but with Mandy still in our team I just don’t see this happening.

COVID will have hit our finance heavily this year (as it has everyone) and extending contract this summer we’ll probably have to increase salaries by millions, replacing Aguero will be the priority (which will be very expensive as Aguero was a phenomenal player), i then think everything else may depend on player movements but given the pandemic the market will probably be generally very quiet.

On the plus side we already have an exceptional squad, we should have some money coming in from sales so there might be money for one other player (assuming there is space in the squad for them), Messi deal is self funding and our under 23 side has some exceptional talent who should be developing into first team squad players over the next 18 months.

Things are looking great for us and if we only got Haaland this summer it’d still be a great summer for us as we have a really strong squad and only really need players who will be first team starters and there not a lot of players in the market who’d improve on what we’ve got.
 
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skyblue_brother said:
Jack Grealish is a phenomenal player and I love to see him at city but for me with Gundo, KDB, Foden, Sterling playing in the positions where he’d naturally fit I don’t see a place or need for him. There was a rumoured release clause of £45m (which villa denied) in his 2018 contract but that was massively increased when he signed the new 5 year contract last year. If he’d cost £100m which I believe is the figure villa want then I don’t see us moving for him.
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There are reports that his new contract has a release clause of 60M for UCL qualified teams (hence why there are talks of us and United being interested in him). That is very much doable. And blocking him from going to United would mean a lot too
 
Guscruz said:
There are reports that his new contract has a release clause of 60M for UCL qualified teams (hence why there are talks of us and United being interested in him). That is very much doable. And blocking him from going to United would mean a lot too
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Wasn’t the price quoted to United last summer £80m?

Assuming there is a release clause of £60m then over 5 years that’s £12.5m a year and £7,8m a year in salary ( assuming we increase his salary from 120 to 150 a week) so effectively £20m a year.

I agree we could afford that and for a English player of his quality seems fairly reasonable, he is obviously one of our target though I still question whether we need him and where he’d fit into our team as we are already increadibly strong in attacking midfielders.

I do worry that to accommodate another attacking midfielder we’d drop Gundo deeper which given how spectacular he’s been this year would be a loss! That said Gundo is 30 and we’d have his replacement already in the side which fits our recruitment policy
 
skyblue_brother said:
Wasn’t the price quoted to United last summer £80m?

Assuming there is a release clause of £60m then over 5 years that’s £12.5m a year and £7,8m a year in salary ( assuming we increase his salary from 120 to 150 a week) so effectively £20m a year.

I agree we could afford that and for a English player of his quality seems fairly reasonable, he is obviously one of our target though I still question whether we need him and where he’d fit into our team as we are already increadibly strong in attacking midfielders.

I do worry that to accommodate another attacking midfielder we’d drop Gundo deeper which given how spectacular he’s been this year would be a loss! That said Gundo is 30 and we’d have his replacement already in the side which fits our recruitment policy
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Kev is 30 this year too, Grealish ticks all the boxes needed to be on our shortlist, imo.
 
Rammy Blue said:
Kev is 30 this year too, Grealish ticks all the boxes needed to be on our shortlist, imo.
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There are rumours from the Villa end that City are trying to close a deal during this international break for Grealish. Would SORT OF make sense in that when we have a big spend we tend to split it between financial years, so I'd expect if we're doing Grealish/Haaland, for one of them to come before the end of June.
 
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