Monday, April 5th, 2021
20 million hand money, fake news
Haaland-Posse takes on completely absurd features
Insane numbers, “fake news” and a wild call at 1 am: The possible move from Dortmund’s Erling Haaland to FC Barcelona is getting more and more grotesque. His advisor and his father are said to demand fees of 20 million euros. Haaland’s agent denies this, the mud fight continues.
Gerard Romero from the Catalan radio network “RAC1” is a mostly well-informed sports journalist. Now he wants to know what absurd demands Erling Haaland’s advisor Mino Raiola is making for the transfer of his star client from Borussia Dortmund to FC Barcelona. Accordingly, the agent claims a fee of 20 million euros. The same amount should go to Alf-Inge Haaland, the father of the BVB star, as hand money. Raiola even imagines a net salary of 30 million euros per year for Haaland.
In addition, according to Romero, the Haaland camp is demanding the stay of superstar Lionel Messi, whose contract with the Catalans expires in a few weeks. In addition, there would be the transfer fee for Barcelona, which, according to estimates by Spanish media, would be between 150 and 180 million euros, because Haaland’s release clause for 75 million euros will not apply until the summer of 2022. How the heavily indebted and athletically and institutionally crisis-ridden Catalans should afford this is still unclear.
“We don’t have a parallel plan”
Adviser Raiola reacted indignantly to the published figures and described Romero’s report as “fake news” that “spreads quickly and widely”. The journalist, in turn, did not let this sit on him and called Raiola live on his Twitch stream at 1 o’clock in the morning, which the consultant was anything but enthusiastic about: “You’re crazy. Stop calling me. It’s not even a decent one Time to call. “
Erling Haaland slowly has to be careful that the farce about his change doesn’t get too much for him. As recently as December 2020, the Norwegian had repeatedly emphasized that he felt very comfortable in Dortmund and that he still had some plans with the team. Then, however, a sporty slide began.
In the meantime, managing director Hans-Joachim Watzke expects the striker to stay in Dortmund despite an impending season without the Champions League. “We don’t have a parallel plan. We’ll discuss this with Erling, his father and his agent Mino Raiola in peace. We also want him to stay with us, to score goals for BVB next year with conviction. There are no alternative plan, “said Watzke in the DAZN interview.
BVB could miss participation in the Champions League for the first time in six years. The gap to Eintracht Frankfurt is seven points seven game days before the end of the season. On Tuesday (9 p.m. / DAZN and in the live ticker on ntv.de.) is the quarter-final first leg in the premier class at Manchester City.
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