Erling Haaland‘s agent has confirmed that they are already planning the striker’s Manchester City exit, opening the door to a ‘dream’ move to Real Madrid.
The Norwegian moved to the Etihad in a £51million deal last summer, and has enjoyed a standout first season at the current Premier League champions.
Haaland has netted 33 goals in 33 games for Pep Guardiola‘s side, with 27 of them coming in the Premier League – the most strikes by a City player in a single Premier League season.
However, while the 22-year-old continues to smash records in a City shirt, his next move looks to have been already planned out, with his agent Rafaela Pimenta confirming that it would be a dream for Haaland to sign for Real Madrid.
The super agent believes the Spanish club still have the magic that players find difficult to turn down.
Speaking at FT Business of Football summit in London, she said: ‘There is the Premier League. And there is Real Madrid.
Real Madrid has something of its own that makes it the Dreamland for the players. Madrid keeps this magic going. It doesn’t have the league competition but it does have the Champions League.’
The Brazilian lawyer who took over as Haaland’s lead agent after the death of Mino Raiola last year, also stated that she likes to map out players careers. Confirming that Haaland was keen to move to City and work with Pep Guardiola, and that the Premier League is now an attraction on it’s own rather than the clubs that compete in it.
‘In my agency we try to make a plan. We have to make a plan’. Pimenta added.
‘We need to have a goal. Maybe we won’t achieve it but if don’t know where we’re going for sure we don’t get there.
When we have a player, we make plans. Even if the player is 15 years old. We are planning out his career trajectory.
When I started in this business, if I would say to a player ‘I’ll bring you to England’ the first thing they would say would be ‘what did I do wrong? Why don’t you like me?
But now, if I ask a player ‘what is your goal?’ he will say the Premier League. He doesn’t say City, Chelsea or Arsenal but the Premier League.
This is the first time in 25 years that I hear so many players say I want to go to a league, not to a club. This is the place to be for an agent.
An agent needs to be where a player wants to be. It’s a fantastic league. It’s so competitive, every game is a challenge, everyone wants to watch it.’
Even though Haaland has been only been at City since last summer, Guardiola has already been forced to deny that his striker has a ‘Real Madrid clause’ in his contract, whereby he could join the Spanish giants in 2024.
While father and former Man City midfielder Alf-Inge Haaland also claimed earlier in the season that his son is only likely to stay in England for two or three years, before testing himself in another European league.
SOURCE: dailymail.co.uk
