Man City: Haaland to Barcelona 'door opened' by 'creative' Laporta in Guardiola 'perfect fit'
Barcelona head of case Joan Laporta opines he has come up with a ‘imaginative’ corporation to guard the wrapping up of Erling Haaland from Manchester Metropolis in the summer.
The Norway international has been a discovery since his tramp to Metropolis from Borussia Dortmund, messing around a means role in their treble in his launching period, and also he’s amassed a luminescent prelude to the new Premier League campaign with ten purposes in 7 games.
Yet with the 115 penalties hanging over the Inhabitants and also the peril of times deductions or even Premier League expulsion there’s irresoluteness over the future of Pep Guardiola and also several the club’s high-account stars, of which Haaland is the most handy.
He’s presently venerated at €200m and also while records object Barcelona will utilise their new offer with sportswear colossi Nike to sift for Haaland, head of case Laporta is in addition sorting at ideologies of swiping too lightly the cost.
According to a report in Spain, he opines ‘Frenkie de Jong can be the means hunk in one of the most ambitious operations that Laporta has intended for FC Barcelona’.
He’s willing to do ‘whatever you can perhaps envision’ to land Haaland and also will utilise De Jong ‘as a strategic money to lessen the price of a transfer that can be astronomical’.
De Jong is out of contract in the summer in 2026 and also there are undoubtedly no talks over an expansion regardless of Hansi Flick’s persistence that the Dutchman is an inestimable part of his ideologies.
Yet the report cases that De Jong can be a handy arrangement tool with Metropolis as he would naturally ‘match effortlessly into Pep Guardiola’s gizmo’ and also ‘would naturally open a door for the barter to seize locate’.
The report says:
‘Erling Haaland, that has a contract with Manchester Metropolis till 2027, has always expressed his admiration for Spanish football and also, specifically, for the history of FC Barcelona. Laporta opines that this is the correct time to encourage the Norwegian to lead the Barça project in the next years. The wrapping up of Haaland would naturally be a blow on the table not solitary at the sporting level, yet in addition in the neutralize for the presidency, since Laporta ideologies to guard his re-election with a activity of such magnitude.’
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Earlier this week it was acted that Haaland ‘has one awfully legible affliction: if he comes to Camp Nou, he will do so to be the massive celebrity’ and also ‘would naturally not pine to compete for minutes’ with Robert Lewandowski.
The Poland tale is somebody Haaland ‘admires as one of the most safe scorers of the last years’ yet the Norwegian is demanding that Barcelona retrieve rid of the striker in the past his arrival.
Barcelona head of case Laporta ‘is thoughtful that, in ordinance to accomplish Haaland’s ultimatums , he will have to bargain the exit of Lewandowski’.
The Male Metropolis striker has amassed it legible that ‘he is not willing to share the spotlight with any individual’ and also it will be ‘harrowing for a part of the followers’ to watch Lewandowski – that has racked up 71 purposes in 106 amplifies for the Catalan colossi – run away.