Erling Haaland, 7 goals in 137 minutes spread over his first three games played with Borussia Dortmund has suddenly become the fashion footballer in Europe improving all the early scoring records in the Bundesliga (it would be said that in all the continent) and catapulting a question into the plane: how could this diamond in the rough escape the big ones in the winter market?
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“The market is increasingly controlled by the representatives, who are the ones who run the career of many players. Haaland’s case is what happened before with Dembélé. Neither more nor less ”unveiled a sound to ESPN Digital, remembering the Frenchman’s pass to the German club before the ball that meant his subsequent transfer to Barcelona.
Borussia Dortmund premiered in the winter market betting on the young Norwegian striker, 19, who already had 28 goals in 22 games with Salzburg, which a year earlier, in January 2019, had paid 8 million euros to the Molde for its incorporation.
Already then his career, directed personally by his father, was in the hands of Mino Raiola, a famous representative, feared and even hated by not a few clubs, and that hand in hand with Al-Inge Haaland (the parent) maintained, and maintains, a perfectly established plan in the scorer’s career.
The contract he signed with Salzburg established an exit clause valued at 20 million euros, a record figure in the club but affordable and understood as a firm commitment to a youth who had closed the year 2018 scoring 16 goals in 30 games with the Molde.
Thus, in November 2019, Raiola began looking for that exit, knocking on several doors to offer Haaland, who after scoring only one goal in his first five games of the 2018-19 season with the Austrian club, closed the month of November with 27 targets, catapulted in the Champions League (7) and arousing the interest of several first continental football swords.
FUTURE CALCULATED
Related to Manchester United, his name was also valued in Barcelona, in the same way that Leipzig, the ‘big’ club of the Red Bull franchise, was interested in signing … But the operation was not reduced to 20 million to pay to Salzburg, but to that figure we had to add the commission required by Raiola and a contract that called into question the long-term permanence in the club that opted for him.
Borussia Dortmund paid the price established in the clause … And a good handful of millions more in commissions, which according to various information amount to 25 to be shared between the agent and the father (former professional footballer in England) of Haaland. In addition to establishing in its contract, valid until 2024, an exit clause established at 80 million euros.
A perfectly calculated future in the player’s career, which in Dortmund has the ideal scenario to exploit his talent with young people like Sancho, Brandt or Hakimi and whose permanence does not venture very long term, as happened to Pulisic, a youth player who was transferred to Chelsea for 64 million euros or previously to Mkhitaryan, Aubameyang or, in the most prominent case, Ousmane Dembélé.
The French striker wanted to sign Barça in the summer of 2016, but Moussa Sissoko, his agent, understood that his role in a team that then had Neymar with Suarez and Messi would have been very secondary, so he rejected the operation or that it was with a transfer for two years to a third club. Ousmane was a premium diamond in the rough that could move a lot of money … And he did.
Dembélé exploded at Borussia Dortmund, which paid 15 million euros for him to the ennes (and another 2 to Sissoko) in July 2016 and a year later, after Neymar’s stormy march to the PSG, he landed at Camp Nou, multiplying his transfer price for eight, up to 125 million, and providing its representative with a large commission (above 10 million euros).
“If in one or two years they can do two operations… Why settle for one by shortening the player’s path? It is a calculated risk that represents a lot of benefit to the agent ”, the consulted source agrees, who bets that Haaland’s stay in Dortmund will not go beyond two years before a millionaire transfer to a large.
And remember, in the same way, the case of De Light, signed by Juventus for 75 million euros … with a subsequent exit clause. The players “are today the closest thing to a company that should give benefits,” said the same person, who believes that the power of the agents has been imposed on clubs.
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