Pep Guardiola has been told that Erling Haaland will show he does not have the right mentality for Manchester City if he elects to join Real Madrid instead this summer.
The Borussia Dortmund striker has a clause in his contract with the Bundesliga side that is set to become active this summer, allowing him to leave for €75million
City have been credited with an interest in 21-year-old superstar, but Laliga giants Madrid have emerged as favourites, according to ESPN.
This one certainly looks set to run and run, and City Is Ours editor Dom Farrell was joined by Ahsan Naeem from the Ninety Three Twenty podcast on our latest Facebook Live show to delve into the prospect of Haaland swapping Signal Iduna Park for the Etihad Stadium this summer.
Ahsan outlined why he thinks the Norway international would be showing a lack of elite mentality if he were to opt against a City move.
AN: "After what happened last summer with Harry Kane, I can't get myself involved with a 'will he, won't he' and I'm not prepared to get into the rumours and try to make sense of them.
"The one thing I'd say, Haaland is probably the best number nine out there right now and I think any player, this summer, that has the choice between City, Barcelona or Real Madrid and chooses Barcelona or Real Madrid probably doesn't have the right mentality for City anyway."
Ahsan expanded on this by stating that the precarious financial state of both Madrid and Barcelona means a move to one of LaLiga's superclubs is not the golden ticket it was a decade ago,
AN: "I don't think you can look at Guardiola and City's footballing project and then go, 'I'd prefer to be in the sun in Spain'. You can do that, go and have your holiday.
"Right now, the thing with Spain, LaLiga itself is on it's a**e and Barcelona and Real Madrid are such strange political clubs at the best of times and I just don't see the attraction, particularly for Haaland who has some roots in England.
"I look at someone like Haaland and think he is made for the Premier League and he's made for City."
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