The impressive season of Erling Haaland He made it clear that, for many teams, not going for his signing was a mistake. His present in Manchester City He is one of the best with a sum of 52 goals in 48 games. In addition, he is a candidate to stay with the Premier and Champions League. The last to make his ‘wish’ public was Frank Lampardwho confessed that he wanted it a few years ago to Chelsea.
“It’s fantastic of him, the Chelsea side is another story. He is a player that I tried to bring to Chelsea, his level at that time was very clear. Credit to him, I love seeing players at that level hungry to be the best and in terms of dealing with him you have to have a plan. I’m sure the players know him well.”mentioned the current interim manager of Chelsea in a press conference before the game against Manchester City.
Lampard saw him training with Salzburg (his team in 2019) and was impressed with his way of living football. For this reason, he wanted to speed up the negotiations, but the club ignored him. For the strategist, the competition was not easy either, but he should have tried.
“I was pushing a lot to have Erling Haaland at Chelsea. I don’t know what the appetite was at the club. The competition was great because he was an outstanding player. The termination clause was reasonable. I don’t know how close he was…but he wanted it.”he added.
This Sunday, Manchester City and Chelsea will face each other for date 36 of the Premier League. The ‘citizens’ box is the leader and if they win, they will increase their advantage against Arsenal to 7 points. On the side of the ‘blues’, they are far from reaching positions in international tournaments.
Manchester United also rejected Haaland
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer confessed that he also looked for Erling Haaland. The one who was a United player and coach, was the Norwegian’s coach during his time at Molde, warned of the jewel he had in his hands: “He had this talented striker that we (referring to his former team) should have had.”.
According to a publication by The Sun, the story details that all this communication arose before his arrival at the Manchester technical command, where he was the main DT: “I called United about six months before I took office, but they didn’t listen to me”.
It is true that the numbers of the Norwegian forward in Molde were not at the level of those of the rest of his career, but the figure at which the transfer was valued was ridiculous considering the level that the 9 of City has reached. “I asked for 4.5 million euros for Haaland, but they didn’t sign it”Solskjaer said.
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