Erling Haaland is steaming towards the goals record for a single Premier League season.
Erling Haaland’s agent has slapped him with a stratospheric price tag, but insists that the Manchester City striker would have a way out of the club if he wanted one. The 22-year-old is under contract until 2027 but a select few of Europe’s biggest clubs are sure to come forward before then, assuming his goalscoring exploits continue.
After his move was finalised last summer, debate swirled on whether Haaland would be able to carry his Bundesliga strike rate over to the Premier League. The striker hit 86 goals in 89 matches for Borussia Dortmund, all while still developing his game as a youngster, prompting City to shell out an initial £51m for his services.
The Sky Blues managed to get their hands on him at that price due to a clause in his BVB contract. Having rattled in 31 goals across his first 27 matches in English football, he would easily command a significantly higher transfer fee if he were to cut his City stint short.
There are even rumours of a £178m release clause in Haaland’s contract that becomes active in 2024, with many tipping him to ditch the Etihad Stadium for Real Madrid.
Erling Haaland is worth one billion euros, according to his agent (Image: Getty)
The frontman’s agent, Rafaela Pimenta, claims that her client is happy working under Pep Guardiola but refused to write off the idea of Haaland going to La Liga in the future. She also raised eyebrows by pinning the Norwegian with a price tag that would obliterate the current transfer record.
“Haaland is worth one billion,” Pimenta told Spanish newspaper AS. “I always offer the player a way out so that he is free to decide. Erling in Spain? I want him to be happy and now he is happy at City. I’ve never had a player who wanted to leave a club and couldn’t.”
Haaland is chasing down the record for goals scored in a single Premier League season, which over a 38-game campaign, currently stands at 31. Incredibly, having only played in 19 league matches so far this term, the 6ft 5in marksman is only six goals from equalling the milestone.
While his achievements in front of goal could set him apart from any striker that has set foot in the Premier League, Guardiola remains adamant that there could be more to come from the youngster, not least by finding a way to increase his involvement in build-up play.
Pep Guardiola has suggested that his team could get more out of Erling Haaland (Image: Getty)
Speaking after the 2-1 defeat to Manchester United at Old Trafford last month, the City boss said: “At the moment we have that process because when teams are sat in their 18-yard box, it is more difficult, but we have to find him a little bit more, yes.
“[Against United] he had enough touches but it’s true that when you are looking at areas and you have to look at him. But we will do it.” The so-called one-billion-euro man could be back in action on Sunday as City travel to north London for a mouthwatering match-up against Tottenham.
ERLING HAALAND’S AGENT VALUES MANCHESTER CITY SUPERSTAR AT £883M
Erling Haaland’s agent has said that the Manchester City striker’s value could be worth as much as £883m just six months after the forward signed for the Premier League giants.
Speaking to AS, Rafaela Pimenta claimed that the 22-year-old superstar could be worth almost four times what PSG paid to sign Neymar back in 2017, with the French giants triggering the Brazilian’s £200m release clause to bring the winger to Ligue 1 from FC Barcelona.
With Chelsea taking spending to a whole new level this January by spending over £300m on new players, finances in football are reaching a breaking point that could one day see Neymar’s world-record transfer fee be obliterated. And Haaland could be the player who does just that.
Pimenta said when asked about Haaland’s value in the current market: “The biggest is Neymar’s €222m (£200m). But of course, numbers change, and for me, Haaland is worth €1bn (£883m). Maybe nobody is going to pay that, but it is the potential that he has when he arrives at a club.”
The City star has been in record-breaking form for the Manchester giants ever since signing for the club this summer from Borussia Dortmund, with Haaland scoring 31 goals in all competitions and matching last season’s Premier League golden boot record before the halfway point.
Indeed, whilst Haaland could one day leave City for a world-record transfer fee, it is unlikely that the Norwegian international will cost as much as £883m, a figure that feels almost too ridiculous to even comprehend in regards to a singular football player.
HAALAND’S SKYROCKETING VALUE COULD RESULT IN GAME-CHANGING TRANSFER
Haaland’s form in the Premier League continues to shock everyone, with the attacker seemingly breaking a new record with each passing week and in the process adding more and more to his overall value. And as a result, the forward could easily break football with a transfer away from City.
As we know, the striker is likely to move on from Manchester in the coming years, and whilst Premier League clubs hold all the wealth, an FC Barcelona or Real Madrid could easily break Neymar’s £200m transfer record to secure Haaland’s signature.
Source: express.co.uk; hitc.com
