Erling Haaland and Pep Guardiola in a match with Manchester City

ERLING WANTED TO PLAY FOR GUARDIOLA

Haaland's representative confirms that the Norwegian only considered City

Published:18/10/2022 - 20:43h

Updated:18/10/2022 - 20:43h

Rafaela Pimienta, Erling Haaland's representative, gave an interview to 'The Telegraph' and spoke about the forward's signing for City. In it, the agent has confessed that the plan of the player and his entourage was to arrive in Manchester

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Erling Haaland Is enjoying of his new life in Manchester. The Norwegian was protagonist of one of the big 'serials' of the summer, when the FC Barcelona, the City and the Real Madrid struggled for doing with his services. However, the 'skyblues' were the winners of the 'career', attaining achieve to one of the greater 'jewels' of the market of signings after crediting 60 million euros to the Borussia Dortmund.

In spite of that in his moment existed doubts on the destination of the footballer, the true is that the directed by Pep Guardiola always had advantage in the 'bidding'. Like this it has confirmed it his representative Rafaela Pepper, in an interview conceded to the British newspaper "The Telegraph", where has explained how produced the first meeting for fichar by his agency. In said meeting, the father of the ariete, Alfie Haaland, left clear the aim of the '9', which was to put under the orders of Pep Guardiola.

According to Pepper, the arrival of Erling to the City 'cooked' between Erling, his father Alfie, his agent (the died Mino Raiola) and she same, with the progenitor of the footballer having a leaf of route very clear. "Alfie Haaland is fantastic. Because he has been there and already has done it before. Alfie came to the office the first time and gather us with Mino, he already had a plan. The plan of Alfie was "my plan is that I need to have a plan and need agents that do plans'", expressed.

Of this way, his signing by the square 'skyblue' began to design from the moment in that it put under the tutela of Raiola, the one who commissioned to fulfil his greater wish. "It has prepared with a lot of care. It schedules each day. I say him to the players 'if when you begin do not know to where go, sure that you will not arrive. Perhaps you do not arrive, but I guarantee you that you will not do it if you do not know the way". So yes, we did a plan from the beginning. It wanted to play with Guardiola. It wants to be here and we know what can do", expressed Rafaela.

The method of Haaland

Finally, Pepper confessed that the forward carries a lifestyle of the most normal, focusing mainly in following evolving like footballer. "That is the recipe of the success. His life is normal, but the football is of last generation. It looks for things, investigates by internet, wants to know it everything. Until the sponsors will choose them in search to improve his game. All goes it to choose in function of what help him to surrender more", concluded.

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