Harry’s loss is Haaland’s gain as City seal deal
agreeing personal terms on a fiveyear basic £400,000-a-week deal, they have agreed to trigger his £64million release clause with the striker’s club Borussia Dortmund.
Add-ons, performance-related bonuses and agents’ fees are set to take the deal over £200m during the course of the contract.
The striker, who had a medical in Brussels yesterday, will say farewell to Dortmund fans either before or after their final home game on
Saturday. City decided to wait for Haaland this summer after plans to sign Harry Kane from Tottenham hit the buffers last year.
And manager Pep Guardiola’s insistence that they could manage without a recognised striker has been partially vindicated, with City in pole position to land this season’s Premier League title.
City expect adding the Norway international to the squad to take the club to the next level – namely, to close in again on the Champions
League trophy. His father, Alf-Inge Haaland, who played for City from 2000-2003 after stints at Nottingham Forest and Leeds, is also expected to net a windfall from the deal as an advisor.
The striker will join up with his new club before City tour the United States in July.
Haaland, who was born in Leeds, began his career at Bryne and Molde in Norway, then spent a year with Austria’s Red Bull Salzburg before joining Dortmund in January 2020, where he has scored 85 goals in 88 games. City are confident they can balance the books, with Fernandinho set to leave the club in the summer and Raheem Sterling and Gabriel Jesus contenders to move on.
Both forwards are being closely tracked by Arsenal, with the pair out of contract in 2023 but still likely to command a fee. Of course, any move would be conditional on the Gunners securing Champions League football next season.