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AT THIS TIME Last year, every football club in Europe wanted to sign Erling Braut Haaland. Manchester United was one of them. Brauten swept the Champions League, he was the hottest of all and the link with Ole Gunnar Solskjær was obvious after the time in Molde.
When the United manager also took a day trip to Salzburg in mid-December, most expected the 19-year-old to play in red from January 2020.
Actually, it was just a matter of setting the conditions.
The sun takes the man
OLE GUNNAR SOLSKJÆR and Manchester United is said to have been excluded from Erling Braut Haaland for financial and principled reasons. Of course they wanted the Norwegian, there is no doubt about that.
The thing was, they didn’t want it at any cost.
The biggest problem must have been the release clause that Borussia Dortmund agreed to, a requirement that Manchester United could not tolerate.
In addition, he had agent Raio Minola, who not only presented a historical catalog of controversies and disputes about Paul Pogba, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Henrikh Mkhitaryan, but also demanded an agent fee of £ 15 million to close a deal with Haaland. .
Ole Gunnar Solskjær had to put sentimentality aside and make a decision.
It was not.
ERLING BRAUT HAALAND he was in the eye of Ole Gunnar Solskjær’s plan to rebuild Manchester United. There is no doubt about that. Sportingly, the forward of the Norwegian team crossed all limits. But football also has an economic side, and for some it is not just about thinking of a number.
Ole Gunnar Solskjær seems to be one of them.
It is not committed to its own principles.
He is not pressured.
Must have demanded £ 15 million from Solskjær
Neither by anyone nor by anyone.
ON THE EDGE OF sunk, because that’s where the United manager is once again after 0-1 for Arsenal and 1-2 in Istanbul, this firmness of principle may finally be what cost him his position at Old Trafford. I am still one of those who think that Ole Gunnar Solskjær could have signed Erling Braut Haaland if he wanted to.
But he didn’t want to, there was a limit.
The same limit was reached when negotiations around Dortmund’s Jadon Sancho broke down in the transfer window that closed on October 5.
I DO NOT THINK Ole Gunnar Solskjær and Manchester United would have had a big problem with Erling Braut Haaland at the top. It would give them the energy that the team’s attack lacks in too many games. Furthermore, the statistics speak for themselves.
Before joining Borussia Dortmund, Brauten scored 29 goals in 27 games for Red Bull Salzburg.
In Dortmund he has so far 26 out of 28.
Where 14 of the goals have come in 11 Champions League games, eight for Salzburg and six for Dortmund.
No young player in soccer kicking history has come close to similar numbers.
FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE SERIES Austria 2019/2020 Erling Braut Haaland has a club average of one goal per game. In 55 games he has scored 55 goals.
For Norway, it is six out of seven, an average of 0.85.
When we finish with Israel in Ullevaal on November 11, I have a feeling those stats are in balance for Haaland as well.
OLE GUNNAR SOLSKJÆR Do not regret anything. He has his ideas and thoughts on how work should be done at Manchester United. Furthermore, he is a man of principle. But that he has thought about what he said no to in December 2019, not to mention that he has had thoughts about what Erling Braut Haaland could bring to the team and the project he gives his all for, there is no reason to doubt it.
In the extreme, it could be what your job costs you.
If it happens should Ole Gunnar Solskjær pays the price.
