Official: Man City sign Haaland from Dortmund for €60m
Karan Tejwani
- 10 May 2022 15:33 BST
- 3 min read
Erling Haaland has completed his move to Manchester City, ending several weeks of speculation over where he would be playing next season.
The Norwegian forward will leave Borussia Dortmund after two-and-a-half years at the club to move to the Etihad Stadium in a €60 million (£51m) deal.
Haaland will reportedly earn €439,000-a-week (£375,000), making him one of the Premier League’s highest-paid players as City looked to strengthen their forward line for the next few years.
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The 21-year-old was of interest to several clubs across Europe including Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich, but many had to pull out of the deal due to the high cost of the operation.
Manchester City can confirm that we have reached an agreement in principle with Borussia Dortmund for the transfer of striker Erling Haaland to the Club on 1st July 2022.
The transfer remains subject to the Club finalising terms with the player.— Manchester City (@ManCity) May 10, 2022
That left the reigning English champions with a free run at the transfer, and they took advantage of the situation by meeting the buyout clause set by Borussia Dortmund.
Haaland signs for the club on a five-year deal, running up until the summer of 2027 and the club see the Norwegian as the long-term successor to Sergio Aguero, who departed last summer.
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Erling Haaland took to Europe's elite club competition with such ease! 🤩pic.twitter.com/a1x3pvu6UQ— Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) May 9, 2022
He joins the footsteps of his father, Alf-Inge, who played for City between 2000 and 2003 and made 47 appearances for them over his three-year spell.
Over the course of his two-and-a-half year spell at Dortmund, Haaland scored 85 goals in 88 games across all competitions for the club – 61 of those goals were scored in the Bundesliga.
He was only able to win one trophy in his time there when Dortmund beat RB Leipzig in the final of the DFB Pokal in 2021.
Prior to Dortmund, Haaland played for Red Bull Salzburg in Austria where he scored 29 goals in 27 appearances over two years.
And before that, he played for two different clubs in his native Norway – Byrne, from 2015 to 2017, and Molde from 2017 to 2019.
The forward has also represented his country 17 times and has an impressive record of 15 goals in that period, although he will have to wait to make an appearance at a major tournament.
