ULTIMATUM FROM THE CEO OF DORTMUND
Dortmund sets a deadline at the end of the 'Haaland soap opera'
Published:23/02/2022 - 21:33h
Updated:24/02/2022 - 08:22h
Hans-Joachim Watzke, CEO of Borussia Dortmund, stated this Wednesday that Erling Haaland will communicate the decision about his future within a maximum period of six weeks. The club does not want to wait any longer to find out whether or not it will have the Norwegian in 2022
The future of Erling Haaland is next to develarse. Although the forward had affirmed that it will not speak on his plans to the end of the season, the Borussia Dortmund has a very different posture and have not hid his pressure so that the player finish to clear his future. It is as well as Hans-Joachim Watzke, CEO of the club, has affirmed this Wednesday that the player of 21 years will announce his decision fianl in a term of four to six weeks, at most.
In an interview to the chain 'RTL', Watzke affirmed that the priority of the Dortmund is to know if they will explain or no with Erling to begin to schedule the next season. If it decides to go, we will handle it as always we have done it. We have lost some big goleadores in the past like Robert Lewandowski or Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. We will find to somebody new again", ensured a Watzke that trusts to retain to the Norwegian by at least a year more, in spite of the substantial offers of clubs like the FC Barcelona and the Real Madrid.
In Can Barça, the arrival of Haaland would represent an investment and unprecedented effort for the directive. Joan Laporta promised his signing, but clearly the blaugranas is in economic disadvantage to compete with the offers of a Madrid or Manchester City. In the case of the 'merengues' to negotiation could close agreeing the permanence of the Norwegian a year more in Germany, because of the arrival of Kylian Mbappé the next summer. This alternative would leave satisfied to the 'negriamarillos', but perhaps no so much to the forward, the one who wishes to leave this year to a more competitive club.
However, the Barcelona does not throw the towel neither much less by the Norwegian. Laporta Trusts that the good relations with Hand Raiola, agent of the 'killer', finish bending the scales in favour of the culés, that offer him to the Norwegian the possibility to be the main figure of the new Barça. Instead, in Santiago Bernabéu would be forced no only to share leadership with Kylian Mbappé, but also to expect by the exit of Karim Benzema.
The return of Haaland will have to expect
The '9' of the Dortmund expected to accompany to his team in the trip to Scotland to confront to the Glasgow Rangers, but finally did not attain to go in in the announcement of the technician Marco Rose. As it advanced 'Bild', the born in Leeds still can not run neither finish balloons with ease, by which his return will have to expect some days more. The forward lesionó the past 22 January in the triumph in front of the Hoffenheim (2-3) and, although it already has returned to the trainings, still does not conclude his recovery.