The times of football run in favor of Real Madrid in his desire to sign Haaland. Borussia continues trying to persuade the Norwegian star not to leave Dortmund this summer, a patience that fits right in with the Madridista roadmap that this newspaper has been reporting on: go for the Nordic giant in 2022. “If Erling leaves us it is to go to a bigger club and many are not yet ready for that, if you choose to go to a club like Real Madrid, for example, you have to be a world-class footballer”said Hans-Joachim Watzke, Borussia's director of operations, on Monday Kicker.
A few words that benefit the white strategy, which is to wait for 2022 because from that moment the pact between the player (in the figure of his agent, Mino Raiola) and Borussia comes into force to leave for a price according to the market. In other words, to undertake a friendly march to a top club. Watzke himself hints at it. “Erling and his agent know what we have. But I can advise you to do like Lewandowski, to leave here already become a world star and that cannot be achieved in a single year“.
Karim's sweet transition to Erling
A request for calm to the possible temptations of the summer market and more if the economy of the big clubs begins to offer green shoots. Madrid plays with the card of time, the most valuable. Until 2022 he has officially renewed Benzema but that union can last year after year and complete a sweet transition between the French, the current reference, and Haaland, the great striker of the next decade for many. By then, 2022, the Nordic will still be just 22 years old. The normalization of relations with Mino Raiola is also in favor as a result of the transfer operation with Areola last season. Madrid are the best positioned club to take over Haaland, as AS reported a month and a half ago.
“I advise you to do like Lewandowski, leave here already become a world star”
Hans-Joachim Watzke, Borussia Dortmund manager, in 'Kicker'
Haaland has become, together with Mbappé, the white object of desire for this 2021, in the two great names of the future project to which the Madrid team aspires, together with the third leg of the table, the new Bernabéu. The Norwegian is currently starting this new year in search of his best tone. He ended 2020 limping due to a fiber break that had him seven games out and he paid it in his first game of the year, last Sunday, in a 2-0 at Wolfsburg in which he did not score and was still lacking in bellows. But waiting for him to regain his usual feverish scoring streak, Borussia asks for his patience in the short term. Just what best suits Real Madrid's plans.