Erling Haaland, Joan Laporta's definitive signing for FC Barcelona

FC Barcelona, ​​led by Joan Laporta, wants to make a 'star' signing before the end of the president's term. Names like Jamal Musiala or Florian Wirtz resonate on Spotify Camp Nou, but the club's big dream is Erling Haaland. The Norwegian is an old desire of the club, and the Barça president has been 'cooking' the strategy for many years to have the scorer wear the Barça shirt in 2025 or 2026.

This is reported in 'SPORT', where they assure that Barça's contacts with the forward's entourage began at the end of March 2021, when Alfie Haaland, together with his then representative, Mino Raiola (with whom Laporta had a very good relationship) began the search for a new team for a footballer for whom Borussia Dortmund was beginning to be 'small'.

Three years later, and with Haaland established as one of the great figures of world football, Laporta continues to dream of Erling celebrating his goals at the Camp Nou. After more than one meeting between the sports management and his current agent, Rafaela Pimenta, who inherited Raiola's 'empire' after his death, the Catalans are determined to go all out to sign the centre forward.

Joan Laporta's plan with Haaland

The Barça president wants to make two high-profile signings to 'inaugurate' the new Spotify Camp Nou, and he is clear that one of these, either in 2025 or 2026, must be Haaland. The relationship between the director and his agent would be fluid and the trust between both parties would be a great 'asset' to achieve the Leeds player's landing in Barcelona. A factor to which we should also add the possible departure of Guardiola from the Etihad Stadium or the sanction that City faces for alleged financial irregularities.

At the moment, Nico Williams would continue to appear as one of the club's main options as long as the economic conditions of the operation are not modified (both his termination clause and his personal emoluments), but Erling Haaland would be the 'jewel in the crown'. Despite the spectacular start of Robert Lewandowski (12 goals and two assists in 11 games), the 36 years of the Pole invite to look for a replacement in the short or medium term and the Norwegian is the chosen one.