Raiola is clear about where Haaland should go: “Two years thinking …”

Mino Raiola, Haaland’s agent has gone on the attack in an interview on Sport 1, while highlighting Borussia’s bravery, when he decided to bet on his player. Raiola thinks about her future, it’s her job and she doesn’t hide it. “We have been thinking for two years. We have clear ideas about where Erling should go and of course we look at what the market has to offer. I’d be a bad agent if I didn’t. We can influence the market with a player like him. We are not influenced by the market. I already changed the transfer market with my players. The representatives have created a second game together with football: Calciomercato. Now we talk about a match two days a week and the remaining five days about transfers. Maybe the sports directors hate me. I do not hate anybody. I just do my job. And I like to cross the lines “, Explain.

Raiola explains that he has a lot of respect for Dortmund because only they were able to bet on Haaland being a stranger. He has a lot of respect for Zorc, the sports director, and Watzke, his CEO, even though their tremendous discussions are very famous. Raiola tells in Sport 1 how Borussia decided on Haaland. “I’m a car fanatic. When you get to choose between a Mercedes S63 AMG or an Audi RS6, it’s difficult, isn’t it? Both are good cars. Erling faced the decision at the time. And Zorc clearly demonstrated the advantages. of his S63 AMG over the RS6. He sold the club in a way that Erling said: “I see myself there. I can develop there.” Borussia have developed enormously. They can be an example for the world of international football. They bring super talents. In Back then they had the balls to look for someone like Erling, who was still quite unknown, but already cost a lot of money. Haaland, Bellingham, Sancho, these are major investments worth it. If you had waited a year, you could never have brought these players. Now everyone looks at Dortmund with appreciation for it, “says Raiola who does not hide that with Zorc he has had many differences, each one defends his own.

“I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life. I’m far from perfect. I can raise my voice when they go against my boys. I had a very bad relationship with Zorc, really bad. He must have really hated me. I never thought he would hate It would become friendship. He has my utmost respect. He defends his club to the death. The negotiations with him were very tough. But it is thanks to Zorc that Erling plays for Borussia today, “says Raiola.

Watzke gives a date for the end of the soap opera

Meanwhile, Haaland is back and Borussia is smiling again. The Norwegian missed part of the Champions League and Dortmund is out. In the last game, the German team defeated Besiktas 5-0. Haaland took the field 3-0 and still gave him a double. His future is a matter of state at Borussia and Watzke, the club’s CEO, has no impediment in talking about it. What’s more, give a date when you think that, for one side or the other, everything will be concluded.

“I think we will talk in the next few weeks. We are not the only ones in control of this. We depend a little on the signals that he and his representative send us. We do not have pressure to negotiate because we do not necessarily have to extend his contract.” Watzke said on Amazon Prime. The Borussia CEO was asked about Haaland’s alleged termination clause. A few days ago he came to say at the club’s assembly that there was no pact with the player and that there was no pact with the player. Now, instead, he slides that Yes there are. “The question is: will it activate the clause or not? We will try not to wait until March or April to find out,” explains Watzke, making it clear that the soap opera will end between those two months. At least to know if he stays or goes. Later, it would be time to know what his destiny would be.

The player is among the pretensions of Real Madrid and Barcelona. The arrival of Rangnick, who knows him from Salzburg, to United, has positioned him well. “Erling Haaland is a fantastic forward. I myself know him very well because he was with the people at Red Bull Salzburg at the time with my friend Christoph Freund and the people there. I was also a little involved in the move from Molde to Salzburg.