Erling Haaland’s agent, Rafaela Pimenta says a combination of the striker’s footballing value, image and value to sponsors make her believe he could be the first £1bn footballer.
Despite only signing for Manchester City in the summer from Borussia Dortmund, there has already been a lot of talk of Erling Haaland leaving the club sooner rather than later.
This mostly comes from the Spanish media, who are adamant there is a clause in his contract at the Etihad that would allow him to head to Real Madrid from 2024 onwards.
Whether the La Liga side would make use of that remains to be seen, and while Pep Guardiola seems in the dark about it all, those who would know refuse to talk about it.
The main person here is Rafaela Pimenta, the Manchester City star’s agent, who recently spoke about Haaland’s future.
Rafaela Pimenta believes the Manchester City star will break new ground with his transfer value.
She said, in an interview with Sky Sport in Italy: “One billion,” she said without hesitation.
That’s what I think, because if you put together his football value, his image value, his sponsor value, it is for sure one billion.
“And if you compare, it’s normal to compare Erling [Haaland] with Kylian] Mbappe so you have a little bit of an idea of the market.
“I think Erling will be the first player to achieve a transfer that will be around one billion.”
Since arriving at Manchester City, Haaland has destroyed pretty much everything in his way, scoring 20 goals and assisting another three in 14 appearances to date.
Manchester City fans have been sharing their reactions to this reports on the future of Erling Haaland – here is what they had to say.
“3 years of halaand and 1b after 3 years? txixi masterclass”
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“Honestly wouldn’t accept £1b for him right now. He’s the best in the world so there’s nobody better we could buy and it’s not like we can just throw money at other world class players and make them want to join us. Plus we’d get so overcharged for every transfer like Barca did with the Neymar money.”
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“Would rather keep him.”
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“1 billion? he’s gonna make our net spend back to 0.”
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“No player will ever reach that value imo. Football is already stretching the boundaries and that value is absurd. He’s a phenomenon, but I don’t see transfers ever reaching those heights.”
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