Erling Haaland has told Manchester City he wanted to join them for emotional and football reasons only, after clinching a £51million move from Borussia Dortmund. The transfer has still to be finalised but the Blues have already announced that the 21-year-old Norway international is set to join them on July 1.
The transfer release fee City have paid is much lower than the £64m that has been widely touted. Haaland will become one of the top earners at City, in the same bracket as Kevin De Bruyne.
But the player, whose dad and former City star Alf Inge helped to complete the deal during the illness and recent death of his agent Mino Raiola, has made it plain that he could have got the same salary at any of the other clubs who were chasing him - understood to be Real Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich.
