The FC Barcelona will litigate to the end by the signing of Erling Haaland this summer. After the visit of the agent of the player, Mino Raiola, and his father, Alf-Inge Haaland, to the City Condal for a meeting with the maximum Barcelona mandator, Joan Laporta, have grown the expectations of a possible traspaso of the young star, that has impressed to average Europe, to the Camp Nou.
In the meeting that took place this Thursday, Laporta communicated to the representatives of Haaland the intention and wish of the Barcelona club in doing with his index card for the season that comes, in the frame of the reconstruction of the Barça to go back to be a competitive team in Europe. In Can Barça see to Haaland like the ideal player to lead the offensive blaugrana when Leo Messi no longer was in the team.
Laporta Already has showed that his intention of fichar to Haaland is serious and that will move all his contacts to achieve his first signing crashes in his second stage like president of the FC Barcelona. However, there are two points that the lawyer sure is considering: the competition in the market (with the Real Madrid and the 'big' of the Premier League threatening to the Norwegian) and the high figures that the Borussia Dortmund, club owner of his index card, demands to consider a traspaso.
The 'Operation Haaland' will be all less simple, especially in the economic subject. It does some weeks, 'ESPN' there was desvelado that the Dortmund only went to accept offers by the forward of 180 millions. In the contrary case, would not open any door to the negotiations. However, as it has informed 'Sport', from the FC Barcelona understand that of this figure could subtract 30 'kilos', by what Haaland would finish costing some 150 million euros in the next window of transfer of summer.
The options of the Dortmund
After the beginning of the 'turn' of Raiola and the father of Haaland to know the intentions of the teams that want to fichar to the jewel of 20 years, from the Borussia Dortmund sent an answer. The sportive director of the club, Michael Zorc, aimed that "yesterday I spoke with Mino Raiola. We leave him very clear ours intentions", leaving fall that they could be opened to a future negotiation.
The true is that the German group needs to do box, especially if it does not classify for the Champions League of the next season (are in the fifth position of the Bundesliga, with four points less than the Frankfurt). Besides, if they want to sell to Haaland by an important price, have to do it now. The Norwegian yes has a clause to go out of the Signal Iduna Park, in the 2022, by only 75 million euros.