Commissions, Fair Play... Everything that kept Barça away from the signing of Erling Haaland

Erling Haaland Has gone back to be a topic of conversation in the world-wide football in the middle of his first season in the Manchester City. The goleador Norwegian, that has had big moments in his change of air to the English football, annotated this Tuesday 5 goals in only an hour of party in front of the RB Leipzig and went in in the books of history of the Champions League where already were Leo Messi and Luiz Adriano.

The Argentinian, and now the Nordic, are the only in doing similar feat in the second phase of the European competition, and both registers could -in some point- have been reviewed in the same club: the FC Barcelona. The capacity of Haaland leaves in evidence that inside almost any club of elite, could be able to break records or at least equalise them, as it did this week with the City of Pep Guardiola.

The Barça could not compete

However, the requirements of the own player and his surroundings did not allow that the Barcelona team could compete by his signing. In 2022 the '9' was the main option to lead the new sportive project Catalan, but when they initiated the conversations with his father and with his agent, all the hope of the Barça came to down finally, and the bidding remained for these teams that can spend and spend without thinking in the morning.

The Barça tried to convince to the player that his arrival to the Camp Nou would be an enormous change for the entity and that with Xavi Hernández in the bench went to take form quickly, something that has finished occurring in this course. In fact, the technician travelled together to gather with the Norwegian footballer does a year, that had the economic section to the same level that the sportive.

Figures that could not be

By his part, Joan Laporta had tackled the operation with the died Mino Raiola, but there was not too advance. The idea of the Barcelona president was to convince on the one hand to his agent and that the technical body, beside Jordi Cruyff, could advance the signing from the side of the player, but the high commissions did unfeasible the operation in front of a complicated 'fair play' of LaLiga regarding the mass salarial culé.

Between the father of the player, the agency of representation and the premium of Haaland, already surpassed the 100 million euros, still without including the traspaso and the new agreement of the Norwegian. Finally the Manchester City did charge of all that and besides paid little more than 60 million euros for the footballer, with an index card of almost 20 million euros by season.